Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowen also announced that the search for Helen of Troy has ended with the selection of Connaught O'Connell '52. Others in the cast include: Theodore L. Gershuny '54, Hector; Joanna Brown '52, Andromache; Charles Humpstone '53, Paris; David Bowen '51, Ulysses; Christopher C. Beels '53, Priam; June Garfield, Cassandra; Jane Johnson '52, Hecuba; and Michael Mabry '53, Ajax...
Both Republicans and Democrats have agreed that "McCarthyism" was an important issue in some of the Republican victories. California, where Richard M. Nixon played up the issue of "communism in the government," is a case in point. There Helen Gahagan Douglas lost by 500,000 votes. At the same time Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, who was chairman of the Senate committee to investigate Senator McCarthy's charges--a committee which returned a verdict unfavorable to McCarthy--lost to a man practically unknown...
...crucial question on the poll, according to President Helen Bernstein, will be the one concerned with prospective attendance. "We are looking for a clear majority of affirmative answers," Miss Bernstein explained...
...extremes. The Republicans most in trouble, including some Midwesterners who normally might be expected to coast in, were generally those on the outer limits of the right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble for the middle of the road. With their differences thus narrowed in so many races...
...Senator Clinton Anderson, acting chairman of the Democratic National Committee: Democrats will have no trouble in retaining control of Congress; in the House, they may lose or gain anywhere up to 15 seats; in the Senate, they may lose Pennsylvania (Myers) and California (Helen Douglas), but will hold everything else, and may even pick up Ohio (Ferguson over Taft) and Colorado (Carroll over Millikin...