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...when the world is falling to pieces comes the entrancing news that Jack Kennedy was once a member of the business board of the Crimson. Now, everyone knows that FDR was President once, and that of course went a long way toward inspiring the celebrated inscription on the Great Seal: "After 14 Plympton, 1600 Pennsylvania...
...objectivity, he said, "The political philosophy of my generation is outmoded. We can't deal with the issues of today." Herbert Pell is heroically unequivocal--especially for a politician--and is delightfully quick-witted in his vignettes of "the old days" or "when I was a boy" or "when FDR was in"--frequent Pell terms. A life-long Democrat, the ambassador decries straight party voting as "unintelligent...
Pell, who was Ambassador to Portugal and later to Hungary under Roosevelt, termed Kennedy "an effective man," but was not sure whether his administration would be a liberal, FDR-type. "I am probably the only person to say 'I don't know what to expect...
Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 50, second son of FDR; and Socialite Patricia Whitehead, 39; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Qualicum...
...these pleas O'Connor reminds one of Kennedy, which is no accident. Just as Kennedy created an FDR image, O'Connor did not avoid giving the electorate the impression that he and the junior senator were similar. On the experience issue which hit O'Connor often, he retorted, "I think this state has done well on the young senators it has sent to Washington: John Kennedy at 35 (my age) and Cabot Lodge at 34 (one year younger than...