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...Utah, Republican Arthur Vivian Watkins, 65, lawyer, weekly newspaper publisher and onetime district judge, who volunteered to run for the Senate in 1946 when nobody else thought a Republican could win, won re-election against Representative Walter K. Granger, who was Utah's only New Deal Congressman to survive...
...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...
...state's counties to get on the ballot. Fish did fine in New York City, but he had to give up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountain counties, where it is hard enough to find five thousand inhabitants, let alone disgruntled Republicans. In Connecticut, however, Miss Vivian Kellems met the filing requirements and began sniping at both major candidates in her weekly radio program. She was a bit disturbed on her last broadcast over the fact that the Republican chairman in Connecticut found five hundred people whose names are on her petition who swore out affidavits saying they...
...YEARS OF IRISH PROSE (607 pp.)-Edited by Vivian Mercier and David H. Greene-Devin-Adair...
...Total Crisis." Chambers ran away from home, and worked as a day laborer in Washington and New Orleans. Later he entered Columbia, where he substituted "Whittaker," his mother's maiden name, for the baptismal "Jay Vivian" he had always hated. His college reading, and a 1923 trip to Germany "reeling from inflation, readying for revolution," turned him to Communism. "Few Communists," Chambers noted, "have ever been made simply by reading the works of Marx or Lenin. The crisis of history makes Communists; Marx and Lenin merely offer them an explanation of the crisis and what to do about...