New Faces

Many of the old familiar faces will be gone when the 82nd Congress sits after New Year's, and in their places will be a crop of fresh-faced newcomers. Most likely to be heard from in the Senate:

John Marshall Butler,* 53, of Baltimore, who in his first try for public office knocked over Democrat Millard Tydings. Tall, wide-grinned John Butler went to work at 14 in a mattress factory for $3 a week, financed his own schooling at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Law School. He married into the Abell family, which founded Baltimore's influential Sun papers, eventually became a partner in a prosperous law firm. Butler won on the McCarthy issue, arguing ceaselessly that Tydings had whitewashed the Communists-in-government charges; McCarthy himself campaigned in Maryland, but Butler said afterwards, "I asked him not to come in."

Thomas Carey Hennings Jr., 47, of St. Louis, who had to buck Harry Truman's hand-picked candidate (lackluster State Senator Emery Allison) in the primaries and hard-campaigning Senator Forrest Donnell in the finals. An ardent internationalist, Hennings campaigned against Donnell's dogged opposition to foreign aid. The son of a Missouri judge, breezy, twice-married Tom Hennings zipped through Cornell and Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker, is now a teetotaler. How did he happen to be the only Democrat to unseat a Republican Senator? One explanation: many Missouri farmers believed that in voting for Hennings they were slapping Harry Truman.

John Orlando Pastore, 43, stubby (5 ft. 4 in.) son of an Italian tailor and the first Italo-American ever elected to the Senate. A product of the efficient Rhode Island Democratic machine developed by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, cocky but cautious John Pastore succeeded McGrath as governor in 1945 when McGrath became U.S. Solicitor General, is now taking over the Senate seat McGrath gave up last year. He once told a group of foreign editors, "Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union and I am the smallest governor"; conscious of his size and his Italian extraction, he says, "I've always felt that there were two strikes against me, and that to succeed I had to do a better job than anyone else." He dresses so carefully it sometimes takes him 15 minutes to knot his tie, and he is apt to be practicing speeches aloud while doing it. Even Rhode Island's long-dominant Irish politicians like him, partly because on March 17 each year, John Orlando Pastore contracts his name to John O'Pastore, in honor of i) his birthday and 2) St. Patrick's Day.

Wallace F. Bennett, 52, wealthy Salt Lake City automobile dealer, bank director and paint manufacturer, who proved that a former president of the National Association of Manufacturers can be elected to public office. He lost only one county -- and that by but 29 votes -- in toppling liberal Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas. A devout Mormon who likes to sing and write hymns, Bennett won a medal on the University of Utah debating team in 1919, taught school briefly.

In the House:

James P. S. Devereux, 47, new Republican Representative from Baltimore, commanded the heroic, 15-day marines' defense of Wake Island. A small (5 ft. 5 in.) descendant of a socially prominent Irish family, Jimmy Devereux was a crack gentleman jockey in Maryland's horsy set, joined the marines in 1923, quickly got to be an officer, retired as a brigadier general in 1948 after spending all but two weeks of World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese.

Major Alfred D. Sieminski, 38, new Democratic Representative in New Jersey's 13th District, won three battle stars and the Bronze Star in World War II. Picked by New Jersey's anti-Hague Democrats to succeed 13-term Congresswoman Mary T. Norton, he won by more than 11,000 votes, though he left campaigning to his wife. He celebrated with a victory dinner of cold macaroni in Korea, where he is now fighting.

* No kin to the late Supreme Court Justices Marshall and Butler.

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