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...majority (v. Tom Dewey's bare 50% in 1948). From there on, the Republican Connecticut sweep was swift and devastating. At 9:30, Democratic Senator Bill Benton conceded the victory of Republican William Purtell and gloomily predicted a nationwide victory for Ike. Minutes later. Democrat A. A. Ribicoff conceded to Republican Prescott Bush in Connecticut's other Senate race...
...have a chance to take both. Republican Senator William Purtell, who was appointed to fill the late Brien McMahon's seat until the election, is running against Democratic Senator William Benton. Purtell is ahead. For the remainder of McMahon's term (four years), Democratic Representative A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush are in a neck & neck race...
...double senatorial extravaganza is the result of the death this summer of Brian McMahon, Fair-Dealing senator from Norwalk. Running for the four-year term left by the death of McMahon are Democrat A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush. The regular six-year term is being contested by the incumbent Senator William Benton, a Democrat, and William Purtell, Republican. Also after the six-year seat are two splinter-party candidates who, in traditionally close Connecticut contests, may gain enough votes to decide the elections--far right Vivian Kellems and so called Socialist Jasper McLevy...
...four major party senatorial candidates Ribicoff at present appears the surest of election. A young Hartford lawyer, in his two terms in Congree Ribicoff has won the admiration of both Democrats and Republicans for his independent voting and his prompt and personal attention to the needs of his constituents. His reward has been an astonishing personal following and a full-length, strongly favorable portrait in The Saturday Evening Post. A good part of Ribbicoff's strength stems from his Jewish ancestry, a potent factor in Hartford which ranks next to New York among American cities in its proportion of Jewish...
Pres Bush is fighting an uphill battle against Ribicoff. A Yale graduate and a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman investment firm, he is the darling of Connecticut's large bloc of wealthy, tweedy, Republican voters who abound in Fairfield Country. He has never held an elective office, however, and must also overcome the handicap of being a "bedroom" resident of the state (his home is in Greenwich, but his business is in New York). Ribicoff's backers are incensed because of what they term Bush's anti-Semitic innuendos; he constantly refers to his opponent as "Abraham" or "Abe Ribicoff...