Out & In

P: New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson cocked an ear for popular acclaim, met with a cathedral hush, and came to a politician's most distressing decision: not to stand for reelection. Last week Hendrickson, an earnest but ineffectual performer in Washington, withdrew from the G.O.P. primary. With Hendrickson scratched, the odds-on Republican favorite becomes former Representative Clifford Case, who would probably have won the primary even if Hendrickson had stayed in (TIME, March 15). Probable Democratic nominee: Pennington's Representative Charles Howell, longtime advocate of a temple of fine arts in Washington.

P: In Pennsylvania's marginal 19th District (York, Gettysburg), George F. Kennan, onetime (1952) U. S. Ambassador to Russia, "Mr. X" of the Truman State Department's foreign policy planning and author of the doctrine of containment of World Communism, filed as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Present occupant of the seat: Freshman Republican Representative S. Walter Stauffer of York.

P: In Louisville. Kentucky's top Democrats met to pick their candidate against able Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, decided to call upon an old and willing war horse: former Vice President Alben W. Barkley. Said Barkley: "I am not ready to give an answer . . . Whether I can be of service to the state and nation will be my sole consideration." Barkley is almost certain to decide his services are absolutely essential.

P: In California, where he hopes to win his party's nomination for Congress from the 26th District in spite of his formal admissions of wholesale adultery (later denied), Candidate James Roosevelt found the going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress."

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