THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 73rd

In Arkansas last week Senator Hattie Wyett Caraway won Democratic renomination in a primary landslide that buried six male candidates for her seat. She ran more than 2-to-1 ahead of her nearest opponent, Ossee Lee Bodenhamer, one- time National Commander of the American Legion. Louisiana's loud Senator Long had invaded Arkansas to campaign for her. "To him." she said. "I would deny no meed of praise or thanks." Mrs. Caraway's victory meant she would be the first woman to be elected to the Senate for a full six-year term.

In New York curly-haired Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 33, Yale-man, socialite and inheritor of one-fourth of his father's 77-million-dollar fortune, including his great racing stable, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the first (North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, great-grandson of Ohio's Senator Henry B. Payne.