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Teddy Kennedy, yes. "Chub" Peabody, maybe. But who was Phil Hoff? Or John King? Or Tom Mclntyre...
...submarine Tirante during World War II, he won the Silver Star for leading raiding parties aboard Japanese craft and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Yet for all such exploits-and despite his heritage as a member of one of Massachusetts' most celebrated Yankee families-Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 42, until last week was a chronic political loser...
...Chub's family tree is full of prominent Democrats. The most famous of all was Chub's grandfather, the Endicott Peabody who founded Groton and who was a lifelong advocate of Democratic public service...
...Good. But for all his credentials, Chub was beaten in a 1956 attempt to win the Democratic nomination for state attorney general. In the 1958 primary, he lost again for the same job. In 1960 Peabody (pronounced Peab'dy in Massachusetts) ran unsuccessfully in his party's gubernatorial primary...
...many in Massachusetts still felt that Chub Peabody would find the shaping of the world a painful task when he collides with the cynical Democratic professionals in the Massachusetts legislature. Says one legislative veteran: "You're going to find him some cold night outside the Statler without his pants. The kindest thing you can do for him right now is give him a bathrobe...