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...Bond, Author Wilson's protagonist, runs true to formula. In most disenchantment novels, the hero is a non-hero who attends an Ivy League college (Nathan goes to Yale), where he is traumatically snubbed because he lacks good looks or money, the two top things, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it. Lacking popularity, the non-hero decides to be different (Nathan wants to be an artist), but he invariably deserts his goal and runs rabbit-scared for life's lettuce (Nathan becomes a cartoonist and creates a Chaplinesque tramp called "Rollo the Magnificent...
...election morning this week, the rising orange sun flashed on the Boston steeples and rooftops and glanced through the mist on the old streets as John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his expecting wife drove to the stately West End (Congregational) Church in the Sixth Ward to vote...
...there, in the turn-of-the-century days of boisterous hurrahs and beer-barrel politics, that his two shanty Irish grandfathers ruled: Saloonkeeper Pat Kennedy, the leader of East Boston's First Ward, and a state representative and state senator to boot; John Francis ("Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, twice the mayor of Boston and a U.S. Congressman, the only man in town who could sing Sweet Adeline sober and get away with it. (It was a proud Honey Fitz who at 83 climbed upon a table and danced a merry jig and sang Sweet Adeline when his grandson...
...Kennedy drive began to creep forward again. With some 90% of the votes counted, Kennedy led Nixon by just 770,000, but he led where it counted. Illinois was in doubt, but Kennedy seemed safely ahead in key California. Finally, even the most cautious proclaimed John Fitzgerald Kennedy the President-elect...
...Mullin. Mullin was expected to be good and he came through. But Howard, who never even ran the event until after the Cornell loss, turned in a very consistent record for the year, usually finishing a little behind sophomore Ed Hamlin and just ahead of captain Jed Fitzgerald...