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...feud's first showdown came in 1916 when Henry Cabot Lodge narrowly defeated John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald for the Senate by 33,000 votes. In a battle of grandsons, John Fitzgerald Kennedy restored family honor in 1952 by knocking Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. out of his Senate seat by 70,000 votes. In a 1960 rematch of sorts, Democratic Presidential Candidate Kennedy took Massachusetts by 510,000 votes against the G.O.P. ticket carrying the name of Vice-Presidential Candidate Lodge. But in a state where politicians nurse their grudges like old wine, even these family jousts...
...Oldest and best-known trainer of race horses in the U.S.-and still going strong-Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons celebrated his 88th birthday with a champagne-and-cake party at New Jersey's Monmouth Park. Blue eyes twinkling, "Mr. Fitz" confided that he has not bet on a horse since Aug. 13, 1919, when he risked $150 on the nose of Man O' War-the day "Big Red" was beaten by Upset, the only loss of his career. Asked if he plans to retire soon, Mr. Fitz snorted: "A man doesn't quit in his prime...
Laconic Statement. A special circuit carried the news to Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg in Washington. The AEC relayed the word to President Kennedy, then cruising on his yacht, the Honey Fitz, on Florida's Lake Worth. The President's casual surroundings were deliberate-they were part of a major U.S. policy decision to underplay the resumption of atmospheric tests...
...condition was a sensitive diplomatic barometer, affected by John Kennedy's pique at an intransigent Nehru. The First Lady had ridden to hounds a fortnight ago at her Virginia estate, and last week went water-skiing off Palm Beach while her husband watched from the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. But the fact remained: Jackie had been examined by White House Physician Janet Travell and a specialist at Bethesda Naval Medical Center-and the trouble was sinus...
...President and the new Speaker have had several well-publicized clashes, beginning with Kennedy's refusal, as a downy-cheeked Congressman, to sign McCormack's petition for the pardon of James M. Curley from his mail-fraud jail sentence (Curley had been the bitter foe of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the President's grandfather, and therefore anathema to the unforgiving Kennedy family). That same year, Kennedy seized the Massachusetts Democratic organization from McCormack: the two men had agreed to a compromise, but the McCormack-endorsed candidate for state Democratic chairman, William Burke, refused to withdraw his candidacy; McCormack...