Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley would be around for at least another six years. Their team had added a potent freshman in Pennsylvania's burly Jim Duff, and it had sent an ancient opponent, Missouri's Forrest Donnell, to the showers. In high Republican councils, Bob Taft's show-me internationalism was more than outbalanced by the sizable majorities of the two international-minded coastal governors, Tom Dewey and Earl Warren...
Thomas Carey Hennings Jr., 47, of St. Louis, who had to buck Harry Truman's hand-picked candidate (lackluster State Senator Emery Allison) in the primaries and hard-campaigning Senator Forrest Donnell in the finals. An ardent internationalist, Hennings campaigned against Donnell's dogged opposition to foreign aid. The son of a Missouri judge, breezy, twice-married Tom Hennings zipped through Cornell and Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker...
...Missouri, Thomas C. Hennings Jr., onetime Congressman, defeated dogged, conservative Forrest Donnell, became the only Democrat to turn a Republican out of a Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
India Edwards, the gabby, gregarious queen bee of the Democratic National Committee's women's division, buzzed into Missouri to sting Republican Senator Forrest Donnell, who is having a hard time getting reelected. The Senator, charged India, is against women. Proof? "He distinguished himself as the only Senator to vote against Mrs. Perle Mesta" as Minister to Luxembourg...
...other juniors on the team are Paul Altrocchi, Bill Borah, Alden Davis, Ambie Redmond, John, Stevenson, and Alan Switzer. Quentin Stiles, besides those mentioned, is the remaining senior on the squad. Forrest "Woody" Hansen, 6:5 center Dick Lionette, and forward Jim Urdan are coming up from the freshman team...