Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family was the realization of Joe Kennedy's dreams of glory. "The measure of a man's success in life," said the founding father, "is not the money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a fortune of some $400 million (see box, p. 23), but he was also an astonishing success as a progenitor. Yet the patriarch's glory was brief. One day last week was the sixth anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination. Another would have been Robert Kennedy's 44th birthday...
...possible that Ted Kennedy, the one surviving son, will eventually emerge from the penumbra of Chappaquiddick to run for the presidency. If he does so, he will be alone in a way that neither his brothers nor his father could ever have anticipated. For now, with a tragic theatrical economy-assassins on cue, the paterfamilias dying like Priam after seeing his sons slaughtered, the calendar neatly pinching off the decade-the myth of the Kennedys is at least temporarily ended...
Behind the Lines. Joe Kennedy had the fortune to be born in a Boston where, the Yankee hegemony notwithstanding, political and financial power was beginning to be possible for an Irishman. His grandfather had fled the potato famine in 1848; his father, Patrick J. Kennedy, became a saloon owner and Massachusetts state senator. Pat Kennedy had the money and savvy to send Joe to Boston Latin School and then across the river to Harvard, deep behind the Brahmin lines. Emerging from Harvard in 1912, Kennedy told friends that he would be a millionaire at 35-and he just made...
...Jack became a presidential possibility after the 1956 convention, Joe was careful to recede more and more into the background. The idea that father and son almost never agreed on political issues was encouraged. "Dad is a financial genius, all right," John Kennedy once said, "but in politics he is something else...
Quincy's Will Scoggins, whose father once coached Red Grange, was the biggest standout in his house's thrilling 42-36 win over Saybrook's touch football team...