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Among the Republican Senators who lost, ironically, was the man who guided Dwight Eisenhower's campaign during the troublous preconvention months: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. In Massachusetts, poodle-haired, young (35) Representative John Kennedy narrowly defeated Lodge's bid for a fourth term. Kennedy, able son of Joseph Kennedy, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had poured out the Kennedy family's funds and charm in one of the most intensive Senate campaigns Massachusetts had ever seen. Among his campaign fillips were teas given by his three beautiful sisters and his mother...
Jules came to office in troublous times. His decapitation of the nightclub slayer Eugene Weidmann was accompanied by such a burst of newsmen's flashbulbs and sob sisters' ink that public executions were barred thenceforth. Once he was arrested on suspicion of being a German paratrooper when his portable guillotine got lost. Thanks to the occupying Germans' zeal for capital punishment, however, he managed to pile up a post-Sanson record of 316 beheadings during his career...
Protestant churchmen busied themselves last week in the statesmen's world. In the silver ballroom of the Hotel Cleveland, 460 bishops, preachers, missionaries and other delegates to the National Study Conference on the Churches and World Order wrestled with a troublous subject: U.S. leadership in world affairs. They had an expert and conscientious coach. From the moment U.N. Delegate John Foster Dulles ended his opening address (TIME, March 14), most of the delegates looked to him for guidance on the question for which he had done his best to prepare them: the North Atlantic Security Pact (see INTERNATIONAL...
...been our custom in past years to foretell of the future for this joyous event, particularly with respect to the $5000 feature race, the Damon Runyon Memorial. In these troublous times, however, all is flux, and we have seen fit to substitute for our predictions the following document...
Americans who shared the dream of a new Asia could, in a troublous week, remember how Hamilton and Lincoln died, and how laden with hatred were the decades in which the American dream took shape...