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Miss Davis, cognizant of last night's Parker Street attack and another on Prescott Street where a girl's dress was torn from her, issued the old warning, "Don't take unnecessary risks," and "Walk in pairs...
...defeated dogged, conservative Forrest Donnell, became the only Democrat to turn a Republican out of a Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the 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...
Dishes & Stymies. His G.O.P. opponent, also a wealthy amateur in national politics, matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers...
Regarding your Sept. 11 article on Bob Prescott and his Flying Tiger Line, wherein you state he painted one of his C-47s like a totem pole and flew a "fanciful" Texan and eight friends to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend...
...such deals, plus new scheduled routes from CAB (TIME, May 9, 1949), the line has built its monthly payload to 2,000,000 Ibs. in 1949-50, as much as it carried its entire first year. Last week the freight future looked so bright that Bob Prescott planned to expand his 24-plane fleet. He placed a bid for 18 mothballed Air Force C-46s. But Prescott, who has clawed his way through more than one freight-rate battle with the scheduled passenger lines, thinks he still has plenty of fighting to do. Complained he: "As long as [the passenger...