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...Massachusetts Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody proposed a thorough reorganization of the executive branch to give the Governor greater power, called for "a partnership for progress between Governor and legislature, between Democrats and Republicans, between government and the people." He urged an end to the "critical self-analysis" which "we in Massachusetts have raised to the level of a genius for self-destruction." The mild applause at speech's end had an ironic ring, since Peabody had just angered many of the legislature's top Democrats by recklessly urging the dumping of veteran Democratic House Speaker John Thompson...
Massachusetts' Barbara ("Toni") Welch Gibbons Peabody, 40, got her political schooling from her father, Morris A. Gibbons, who has been a member of Bermuda's colonial parliament for 40 years. Says "Chub" Peabody's cousin, Rosemary de Suze: "Toni is a marvelous cook, she is a marvelous seamstress, a marvelous mother and a marvelous wife. She will tackle anything and do it well." Sniffs a Boston society editor: "Chub would never have made it without her." He met Toni early in 1944, when he was stationed at a submarine base in Bermuda. Toni, a green-eyed blonde...
...Kennedy '54 and Republican Laurence Curtis, had been circulating since early in the campaign. To anyone who bothered to count bill-boards or television time, it seemed curious that Kennedy's total expenditures of $100,292 at the time of the primary amounted to less than half of Endicott "Chub" Peabody's '48 ($238,583), Democratic candidate for Governor, and only $20,000 more than Edward McCormack...
...Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, who -pending the outcome of a re-count-defeated Incumbent Republican John A. Volpe in last month's election...
...know at least one comforting fact about our new Governor-elect, "Chub" Peabody. He can certainly play football...