National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

In Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota last week primary campaigns closed, candidates for the 72nd Congress were chosen. In Maine's four districts, only one incumbent was not renominated for the House but he, Wallace Humphrey White, was nominated for the Senate (see below).

Ten of New Jersey's dozen districts renominated their present representatives; in the third district regular Republican Thomas M. Gopsill is to run against Democratic William H. Sutphin, Wartime airman, onetime Mayor of Matawan (when aged 28). In the ninth district Peter A. Cavicchia,...

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