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...party had to pick a candidate for the seat held by the Democrats' William Benton, who is up for re-election this fall. With Lodge declining, the Republicans nominated Manufacturer (hardware) William Purtell. Then, last July, came the death of Connecticut's other Democratic Senator, Brien McMahon. After a soul-searching vacation in the Virgin Islands, Lodge returned to Hartford, again declared he was not a candidate. He promised a free and open convention (i.e., he would remain neutral) to choose a nominee...
Connecticut Democrats also nominated a candidate to run for McMahon's unexpired term: Hartford Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. The able, earnest son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Ribicoff, who is 42, came out of University of Chicago Law School in the Depression, built a successful practice, went into politics, served four years in the state legislature, was elected to Congress in 1948 and again in 1950, running well ahead of the rest of his ticket. No razzle-dazzle campaigner, he prides himself on his stick-to-the-issues plainness, his visits by Ford convertible among voters everywhere in the state...
Died. Senator Brien McMahon, 48, congressional watchdog of the atomic energy program, who received 16 first ballot votes at the Democratic Convention as Connecticut's favorite son candidate for the presidency; of cancer; in Washington. A Yale Law School graduate (1927) and a protege of Connecticut's shrewd old Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner...
After the Opera. A fair number of Americans in Paris eventually turn up at the hospital. Schoolteacher Anne Louise McMahon of Lewisburg, W. Va. was crossing the Boulevard des Capucines one night last month, after attending the opera, when a motorcyclist roared down the street and hit her; she suffered a broken left leg. "Right away," she says, "I thought of my little card." Her friends fished it out of her pocketbook and handed it to the gendarme who sent her, d'urgence, to the American Hospital. Card or no, the police probably would have sent her there anyway...
...Schoolmistress McMahon's leg is mending well, though she is still not sure how soon she can go home. She is delighted with the hospital and the treatment she has had; speaking no French, she has found it a comfort to be cared for by English-speaking doctors and nurses. (The doctors include three Americans, five Britons and a Canadian; the 100 nurses are of nine nationalities...