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...egghead, balanced Businessman Senator Smith will catch more than fish for the Commonwealth of the Sacred Cod during Roomie Jack's tenure...
...courtship with increased ardor. For six months Jack campaigned relentlessly for Jackie's vote, in and out of Georgetown dinner parties, Washington art theaters and movie houses (he even learned to tolerate Ingmar Bergman), at hunt breakfasts, up and down the Atlantic littoral from Palm Beach to Cape Cod. In June 1953, their engagement was announced. The Bouviers received the news with mixed reactions. Black Jack and his son-in-law-elect hit it off immediately. "They were very much alike," recalls Jackie. "We three had dinner before we were engaged, and they talked about politics and sports...
...Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary, and no churchgoer is more than six rows from the altar rail. Last year Bishop Pike invited Architect Hammarstrom to the Pacific Coast to design a brother church, St. Anselm's in Lafayette, Calif., where some 450 parishioners assemble within the octagonal space, none more than seven rows from the altar...
Shame on Senator John Kennedy of Boston, "the home of the bean and the cod," for downgrading beans! That ought to cost him the Boston vote...
...film, a first-time effort by three ex-admen, begins with a loving shot of wharfs, fishing shacks and the sounding sea-the sort of vista once sketched avidly by artists and now appreciated chiefly by retired couples who tour Cape Cod in late September. The artist is a burly fellow (Ezra Reuben Baker), recognizably aesthetic in paint-smeared dungarees, scurrilous red sweater and combat boots. He trundles a cart filled with paint buckets along a dock, then throws an enormous sheet of wallboard down on a mud flat ten feet below...