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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...
Booze & Benzedrine. Mike's own pain in the heart is Mollie, a trig little blonde with "small and perfect . . . breasts . . . out of a sweet period of Greek art." She lives among the "beach bums," the has-beens and would-be's of Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's...
Inevitably, the Warren-Werdel contest was compared with the startling performance of Warren's political protege, 43-year-old Senator William Knowland. In the Republican senatorial primary, Knowland rolled up a total of 1,499,290 votes to 185,827 for two opponents. Under California's weird cross...
There was only one man in the country who was considered superior to Hutter, and he was Kiphuth's protege, Johnny Macionis. Both Hutter and Macionis were taken to Germany that year. But when Kiphuth was called upon to make the final choice for his relay team, for some unexplained...
Gael Sullivan, 47, took over as national chairman of the Kefauver for President Committee. A native Rhode Islander, a parochial schoolmate of former Attorney General Howard McGrath and an alumnus of Ed Kelly's political campus in Chicago, Sullivan was the fair-haired protege of Democratic National Chairman Robert...