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Voters apparently wanted a harder hand laid on Communists. That was not true in Connecticut, which Senator Joe McCarthy invaded, shouting his charges against the State Department, in an unsuccessful effort to torpedo Brien McMahon and William Benton. But south and west, where voters may have discounted a good part of what McCarthy said, they nevertheless decided that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire. (The Democrats had argued that so much smoke only indicated an arsonist.) In California, victorious Senator Richard Nixon, who had routed the Democrats' left-leaning Helen Gahagan Douglas, confidently announced...
...G.O.P. Candidate Joseph Talbot (defeated by Senator Brien McMahon, chair man, Atomic Energy Committee) : "You just can't fight the atomic bomb...
...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...
...rival's helicopter by singing second bass in a quartet with three Yale undergraduates at major public appearances. They sang the Whiffenpoof Song, though some of his backers thought he should shush his Yale connections. He pronounced Bowles (Yale '24) the philosopher of leftism, Senator Brien McMahon (Yale LL.B. '27) the spokesman, and Benton (Yale '21) the captive, announced that his campaign was based on "Korea, Communism, confusion and corruption...
...Wagons. All this gallimaufry seemed to embarrass Senator Brien McMahon, a traditional-type politician. As chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, McMahon had taken on the mantle of an atomic statesman, and he kept it wrapped determinedly about him. He paid no attention to his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats...