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Besides O'Neill, the seat has been represented by three of state's most influential Democrats of this century, including John F. Kennedy '40; James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor of Boston; and John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the Boston political boss and the former president's grandfather. Observers say the historic nature of the seat has contributed to heightened interest in the race among local politicians and the media...
...There are no second acts in American lives," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died in 1940 a few miles from the Hollywood editing table where Orson Welles was giving birth to his own screen legend with Citizen Kane. The sin of Welles' life was that it had two complementary, all-American acts: heroic tragedy, then celebrity farce. By the time he was 25, Welles had traveled the world, appeared at the Gate Theater in Dublin, stormed Broadway with crackling, sepulchral productions of Shakespeare and The Cradle Will Rock, scared America out of its wits with his War of the Worlds...
...accomplished our goal (when Fitzgerald) left," said Cornell senior John A. Chanin '85, one of the protesters...
...protesters shouted at Fitzgerald, calling on him to explain CIA activities in the Third World and elsewhere...
...Fitzgerald did not respond to charges or questions from the crowd...