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 needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent.

Wendell Howes Meade, genial 34-year-old Republican attorney from Kentucky's mine-pocked Seventh District, where he soundly beat ailing Military Affairs Chairman Andy May, once the miners' darling, but reduced to political silence since the Garsson investigation.

Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico.

John Brophy, 45, who won handily over Edmund V. Bobrowicz, branded a Communist in Democrat's clothing by the Milwaukee Journal. A bald, chunky onetime Socialist and Progressive, Brophy became a Republican when the Progressives merged with the G.O.P. last spring.

John Davis Lodge, handsome 42-year-old grandson of the late Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of new Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; ex-Navy lieutenant commander and onetime cinemactor (The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple, The Scarlet Empress with Marlene Dietrich). In his campaign, Republican Lodge and his wife, onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti, invaded Bridgeport's Italian district making speeches in Italian, while his opponent, Ranger hero Colonel Henry Andrew Mucci, a second-generation Italian, spoke only English. Lodge will fill the seat occupied for two terms by retiring Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce.

Albert L. Reeves Jr., 40, tall, solemn, Kansas City, Mo. Republican who trounced Enos A. Axtell, the Pendergast candidate raised to temporary notoriety by Harry Truman's endorsement last summer. An ex-lieutenant colonel of engineers and onetime speech teacher at Texas' Baylor University, Al Reeves is the son of a famed federal judge who indicted scores of Pendergast lieutenants for election fraud.

William G. Stratton, 32, short, shouting Republican who beat New Dealing incumbent Emily Taft Douglas for Illinois Representative-at-Large. Stratton jumped into politics at 26, was elected Illinois Representative-at-Large in 1940 chiefly on the reputation of his father, ex-Illinois Secretary of State William J. Stratton. In Washington he distinguished himself as a rabid isolationist, and by letting his frank be used for the mailing of pro-German propaganda. He came back this year partly on the Republican tide, partly because Illinois Governor Dwight Green did not want him in a state job.

Captain George Sarbacher Jr., 27, one of the youngest members of the 80th Congress, and still on active Marine Corps duty at the Philadelphia Naval Base; son of George W. Sarbacher, veteran G.O.P. leader in Philadelphia's 43rd ward. Because of Marine regulations, Sarbacher did not speak during his campaign meetings, but won by taking bows and riding Pennsylvania's Republican landslide.

Homer Raymond Jones, 53, victor in Washington's First District, where voters decided that any Republican was better than Communist-line Hugh De Lacey. A kindly, stolid, small-time political seat-warmer, Jones's campaign handouts made the point: "Jones was a clean baseball player for Bremerton, hit a home run in his last game for his wife, Delia."

Howard A. Coffin, 62, humorous, hefty general manager of the White Star Division of the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.; winner for the Republicans in Detroit's poor, melting-pot 13th District.

John Albert Carroll, 45,husky, humorless, handsome ex-Denver policeman, who was one of the few Democrats in the nation to oust an incumbent Republican (red-faced Dean Gillespie). An ardent New Dealer, Carroll went to night school for six years to be admitted to the Colo rado bar, became Denver district attorney and an A.M.G. major in Italy in the war.

John F. Kennedy, 29, boyish, rawboned, Harvard-bred son of ex-U.S. Am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy. To win the Democratic primary in Massachusetts' 11th District, which has rarely sent a Republican to Congress, ex-P-T boat-commander Kennedy made 450 speeches, plumped first for international issues, then switched to such local matters as the restoration of Boston's port and the encouragement of New England industries.

One of his biggest jobs: to convince 37 nationalities in some of Boston's grimmest slums that he was no Fauntleroy.

* But women members of the House will be down from eleven to seven.

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