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OVER the last six weeks. Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy has traveled more than 10,000 miles in his preliminary prospecting for the 1960 Democratic nomination for President of the U.S. TIME Washington Bureau Correspondent Marshall Berger accompanied Kennedy on key trips to the South and Midwest, which made some of the year's most remarkable political news. Almost everywhere else that Kennedy went, there was a TIME correspondent at his elbow. Says Kennedy: "It got so that whenever I got off a plane and didn't immediately see a TIME man near...
...Daytona Beach, when a National Airlines attendant last week yelled angrily for Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy to hustle aboard or get left in Florida, Mayor J. Hart Long said pointedly: "He doesn't have much respect for the future President of the U.S., does he?" To a Young Democrats' convention in Reno a fortnight before, University of Minnesota Coed Geri Storm brought word from her 58 sorority sisters: "Every girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy...
...that is just what should be expected of a son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald (whose father boasted that she had turned down the marriage offer of that tea-making sail-boatin' Britisher Sir Thomas Lipton) and a grandson of Patrick Joseph Kennedy and John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald...
Long-Handle Drawers. Grandfather Pat Kennedy, a saloonkeeper, was the Democratic leader of Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor...
Honey Fitz and Pat Kennedy often opposed each other politically, but they formed a family coalition with the marriage of red-haired young Joe Kennedy and brunette Rose Fitzgerald, who spoke French and German and "understood Harvard." Harvardman Joe, who had just taken over as president of East Boston's Columbia Trust Co. (Pat Kennedy held substantial stock in the bank, which did not hurt Joe's getting the job), promptly announced that he would make a million dollars with the arrival of each new child...