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...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...
...Republican Senate seats seemed to be in Colorado, where popular, down-the-line Trumanite Representative John A. Carroll appeared to be running in front of canny, conservative Senator Eugene Millikin, and in Missouri, where ex-Congressman Tom Hennings, a vigorous campaigner and onetime prosecutor, had reportedly overtaken methodical Senator Forrest Donnell. Republicans agreed that both seats were in danger...
...Magpie was the third U.S. warship hit by floating mines off Korea. The destroyers Brush and Mansfield had suffered eleven dead, three missing, 17 wounded, but managed to limp back to port. In Washington, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman said the mines were Russian-made, "only recently from the warehouse," probably set adrift in Korean rivers. More than 65 have been swept up so far. They are illegal under The Hague Convention of 1907, which forbids unmoored mines. Russia, however, had never signed the convention...