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...Kowalski," he ordered. "John wants him." Replied the bystander plaintively: "But I am Kowalski." A few minutes later Frank Kowalski, with Bailey's blessing, was nominated for Congressman at large. And by last week almost everyone in Connecticut knew who he was-although Bailey, for one, wishes he did not. For Kowalski is stubbornly contesting the U.S. Senate nomination of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, and in so doing he is giving both Ribicoff and Bailey plenty of headaches...
Unmistakably Polish. Kowalski, now 54, is an unusual fellow. The son of an immigrant ironworker, he was born in Meriden, quit high school after two years to join the Army as a private. Two of his teachers, impressed by his great flair for mathematics, talked him into taking competitive exams for West Point. He won appointment, graduated 68th in the 260-man class of 1930, later did graduate work at M.I.T. and Columbia. He served in Europe during World War II, after V-E day helped direct the dismantling of Hitler's war machine, later served under MacArthur...
...Kowalski, then a colonel, decided it was time to get out of the Army...
...interested in politics, and a mutual friend introduced him to Bailey. As it happened, Bailey desperately needed someone to run for Congressman at large on the ticket with Ribicoff, who was seeking re-election as Governor. Kowalski seemed to fit the bill: he had a good record, no political enemies, and an unmistakably Polish name to appeal to the heavy concentration of Poles in Connecticut's industrial areas. Bailey forced Kowalski on the Democratic convention, and Kowalski won in November. In 1960 he was re-elected with 657,680 votes, the biggest total in state history...
...House, Kowalski has opposed U.S. atomic testing, criticized U.S. policy toward Castro's Cuba as unduly harsh, and championed organized labor (Jimmy Hoffa recently made a special trip to Connecticut to put the Teamsters' seal on Kowalski's candidacy). He also got ideas about the Senate, and while Ribicoff played cozy (he still has not formally announced, hopes to be drafted at the Democratic state convention next week), Kowalski went to work. His old sponsor, John Bailey, now also Democratic national chairman, has tried every sort of persuasion and pressure to get him out of the race...