National Affairs: New Faces in the House

To the reorganized House next January will go a whopping number of new members. Whatever they may lack in polish and statesmanship, and whatever they do to Harry Truman's plans, they will add much to the life, color, success or failure of the Both Congress. Some of them:

Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and...

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