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...assaulting a Harvard campus cop. Then came a Globe poll showing Max in a dead heat with state senator Stephen Lynch, an ex-ironworker who grew up in the blue-collar Southie neighborhood. That weekend, four days before Max was to announce his candidacy, his press spokesman, Scott Ferson, got a call from Hyannis Port. "I'm not going to do this," Max told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Kennedys | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...automatic overview of a modern museumgoer; nor was he a kind of Yankee Kenneth Clark, mellifluously discoursing among the servants and mockingbirds of Monticello. He believed, correctly, that he was an instrument of history; but he did not imagine himself as a character in a cultural saga. Jef ferson's tough, ambitious self-teaching, in all its patchiness, cannot have been the smooth inheritance of masterpieces that his show suggests. It was won, not inherited, and in that sense was profoundly American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jefferson: Taste of The Founder | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...much by disposition as descent, Harry Flood Byrd was an aristocrat. Like his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jef ferson, he had doubts about a truly demotic society. In courtly but inflexible fashion, Byrd also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: The Squire of Rosemont | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Sprig of a patrician Boston family whose wealth came from shipping and New England real estate, Eleonora Sears is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jef ferson. Her mother's father was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1892-93) Minister to France. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1875, is currently celebrated in Boston for his habit of taking a long constitutional around Back Bay every day, rain or shine. Frederick Richard Sears's daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady from Boston | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...plaintiff argued that the Ferson mortgage should be satisfied first out of the proceeds of lots three and four, and the proceeds of lot two should be applied to the balance due to the Ferson claim and then to the Sexton claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGDELL-MARSHALL FLAYS SCOTT CLUB | 1/17/1925 | See Source »

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