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From Old Joe on down, the Kennedy clan had every reason to be excited. For the youngest of the nine Kennedy children, the chubby little boy who used to wear bangs, had just scored a stunning political triumph. Seeking the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts, he amassed 69% of the vote, humiliated State Attorney General Edward J. (Eddie) McCormack by a margin of 559,251 to 247,366. At 30, and just three years out of law school, he was one of the hottest political properties outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...create a home that was never like home for its U.N. staff, Mali paid $300,000 for two mansions overlooking the Hudson at Tarrytown: Linden Court, with 19 bedrooms and ten baths, and Uplands, which has only seven bedrooms and six baths. Both were sold by the Biddle clan...
...ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds and MacLeods and Macleans. There were ruins and grottoes, homely customs, and high ritualized hospitality. Johnson per ambulated, gazed and pontificated. He could also be playful as well as sententious. When a young bride sat on his knee and hugged and kissed him, the 64-year-old lexicographer said...
...play the game that counts; it's whether you survive." This is how a friend of John Kennedy's describes the problem of matching the "vim and vigah" of the Kennedy clan at play. Not since Teddy Roosevelt has the U.S. had such an active First Family-and the tab for being a Kennedy guest is often a heart-pounding, muscle-aching round of activities. Last week, like many other Americans, the Kennedys were deep in vacation plans, and training for vacation as if they were about to be landed on the primitive beaches of Borneo...
When Sam was 13. his father's health failed, and by the rigid seniority rules governing the Newhouse clan, the oldest male child took over as head of the family. Sam's qualifications for this office were fewer than his years: a grammar-school education at Bayonne's P.S. 7, plus whatever acumen he had absorbed in a business course in Manhattan (to save the 3¢ ferry fare, young Newhouse toted