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...months, President Truman had been unsuccessfully trying to land a man of stature as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. All the time, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon kept nudging the presidential ribs and pointing admiringly at McMahon's friend and former law partner, Gordon Dean. Last week Mr. Truman gave in to McMahon's rib-poking. The White House announced that friendly, freckled Gordon Dean, a member of AEC since May 1949, would be the new $17,500-a-year chief of the nation's billion-dollar atomic energy program...
...chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Brien McMahon was in a fine spot to do a friend a favor. Dean was appointed to AEC in the first place at McMahon's urging, was reappointed this year to a fresh three-year term. Seattle-born Gordon Dean, 44, began his public career under McMahon's wing. In 1934, he quit teaching law at Duke University to become assistant to McMahon in the Justice Department's Criminal Division; there the two became friends. Dean spent six years at Justice, quit to join McMahon's Washington...
...rest of the nation, though the convention spent less time debating it, was the choice of two Republican candidates for U.S. Senator. Harold Mitchell's organization again carried the day. Ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot, a Roman Catholic, was named, without competition, to run against Catholic Senator Brien McMahon, who had done his best to identify himself with an atomic peace (he is chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee...
Married. Rear Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn (ret.), 72, onetime (1936-38) commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet (CINCUS); and Agnes McMahon, 47, wartime Red Cross worker; he for the second time; in Washington...
...known Communists in the State Department, I wouldn't give you their names." Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper tried him out on a series of names. Shouted Browder: "I refuse to answer. I will have no part in a fishing expedition." Connecticut's Brien McMahon tried another tack. "You don't have to answer if you feel your answer might incriminate you," he said wheedlingly, but there were some names that had been publicly mentioned. What did he know of Dorothy Kenyon, Haldore Hanson, John Carter Vincent, John Service? Chimed in Chairman Millard Tydings: "If you felt...