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...death of Nevada's splenetic old Senator Pat McCarran (TIME, Oct. 11) gave the G.O.P. hopes of an election-year windfall: a sure Senate seat. Republican Governor Charles Russell appointed Reno Attorney Ernest Brown to replace Democrat McCarran, clearly intended that Brown should finish the last two years of Pat's term. The Democrats, naturally, wanted an election this year...
Portents. Pat was valedictorian of his Reno high-school class (1897) and holder of the school record for the 100-yd. dash (10.2), but had to withdraw from the University of Nevada to take over the family ranch when his father suffered a crippling injury. Soon Pat was carrying Blackstone in his saddlebags while riding out to herd sheep. In 1905 he was admitted to the practice of law; within ten years he was chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, and in 1920 he achieved national attention as counsel for Mary Pickford in her divorce action against Owen Moore...
...Washington on the Roosevelt tide of 1932. In his early Senate days he generally voted with the New Deal, e.g., for the Wagner Act and the NRA (which he later denounced), but Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park could not long remain the leader of Patrick Anthony McCarran of Reno. Their great split was over the 1937 attempt to pack the Supreme Court, but long before then there had been portents of things to come. Within a week after being sworn in, McCarran made a Senate speech against an Administration-backed cut in veterans' pensions. The bill passed...
...Cuba, an old playmate of Actress Gardner's was having a quieter time. Retired Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Ava's escort in Spain and her guest later in Reno, was visiting with Author-Sports man Ernest Hemingway. Dominguin and white-bearded "Papa" put on cool shorts and tossed a hunting lance around for a while, but spent most of their visit together hunting fish...
Divorced. By Marilyn Buferd, 29, undulate onetime (1946) Miss America, who scored a hit in Italian movies: Francesco Barbaro, 42, Italian actors' agent; after three years of marriage, one son; in Reno...