Spelling Bee

As anticipated, Connecticut Republicans last week nominated vote-getting Raymond E. Baldwin as their off-year candidate for the U.S. Senate. To succeed Baldwin as governor the G.O.P. pinned its hopes on tall, quick-tongued James L. McConaughy, head of United China Relief and onetime college president (Wesleyan, Knox). Said McConaughy (rhymes with Donahey) to the delegates: "No one has ever named an apple after me. You are taking a chance in choosing a candidate with a name as hard to spell and pronounce as McConaughy." His almost certain Democratic opponent: ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles.

To fill retiring Representative Clare Boothe Luce's spot on the ticket, the G.O.P. picked handsome John Davis Lodge, 42, onetime cinemactor, grandson of famed Henry Cabot Lodge and brother of Massachusetts' Republican candidate for Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the movies, Connecticut's Lodge was elastic enough to play Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel and Marlene Dietrich's lover in The Scarlet Empress. He decided in favor of politics while serving overseas with the Navy.

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