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Could It Be Estes? A staunch regular Democrat, Connecticut's Brien McMahon, rushed breathlessly into the Illinois presidential primary just ahead of the deadline. His aim: to cut down Kefauver, who had already entered. Former Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who believes that the Kefauver committee's revelations of politics-crime tie-ups in Illinois defeated him in 1950, had persuaded McMahon that Kefauver would be easy to beat. But four days later, McMahon backed out just as suddenly as he had entered, murmuring that he is really for Truman...
...regular Democrats had taken a closer look and concluded that Estes Kefauver, although he is not strong with the professionals, is popular with more voters than the pros suspected. The organization men suddenly realized that Kefauver might knock out McMahon, and thus give the whole regular Democratic organization a bloody nose...
...Served as assistant to the dean at Duke University Law School. In 1934 he went to Washington as attorney in the Department of Justice. In 1937 he rose to serve Attorney General Homer Cummings and his successor Robert Jackson as special assistant in charge of public relations. When Brien McMahon, chief of the criminal division, resigned in 1940 to start his own Washington law firm, he took Dean along as a partner. Dean worked with the McMahon firm until 1943, when he joined the Navy. In 1945 Robert Jackson took him to Germany to handle public relations...
...brought up the subject during his transatlantic telephone calls to Eisenhower. Last July his trusted aide, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, took off for Europe on a quick "inspection trip" and talked the matter over personally at SHAPE headquarters. On another occasion, Connecticut's Fair-Dealing Senator Brian McMahon, a White House favorite, carried Ike the same tempting message. Harry Truman himself may have told Ike in Washington last November that he could have house with the Democrats (TIME, Nov. 12). To all such urgings, even the most hopeful Democrats admit, Ike has thus far answered with a firm...
...police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy; and Michael Strong, as Wiseman's slack-jawed crony...