Word: furcolo
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...past.'' In a way, the Kennedy Administration is coming in at an opportune time, he believes. "The duplication and false starts we had were kind of necessary. We learned a lot from it, including how not to do some things." Kennedy Hater. Massachusetts' outgoing Governor Foster Furcolo is boiling mad at his treatment at the hands of the Kennedys, and he doesn't care who knows it. Under Kennedy pressure he named Kennedy's Harvard roommate, Gloucester Businessman and Sports Fisherman Benjamin Smith II, to fill Jack Kennedy's Senate seat for two years...
Bundy, on vacation in the West Indies, made no reply to the Governor, but in a statement the next day at Palm Beach Kennedy slapped back at Furcolo. "I think the governor's objection is that Mr. Bundy opposed him in the 1958 election. I will say that for these positions involving national security, Treasury, Defense and State.... I have attempted to select people regardless of whether they supported...
...Galbraith as Ambassador to the Revolutionary Government of Ethiopia.... Pusey says that he is "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and makes plans to attend the inauguration.... Frank Sinatra's "Inaugural Gala" features the Harvard Band and Glee Club, and makes so much money that even Foster Furcolo's debt from his primary campaign for Senator are paid...
Sources in Massachusetts Hall report that the "classic clique" close to Pusey is booming Sterling Dow for Dean of the Faculty. Dow refuses to comment.... Foster Furcolo takes a job as "Critic at Large" for the Boston American. Leverett Saltonstall terms the appointment "completely incredible" and calls Furcolo a "dirty Yalie." ...Robert Chapman, Director of the Loeb Drama School, announces that a touring company of "My Fair Lady" will play in the Loeb during spring reading period.... Bolles, still looking for a football coach, says he is "seriously considering" Ted Kennedy...
...Woodrow Wilson's letter to his brother, refusing to appoint him postmaster of Nashville, Tenn.... Trottenberg still says the MTA will be running "any day now".... Bundy completes his reorganization of the National Security Council and announces another Harvard appointment: Carle Tucker as director of the new NSC cafeteria. Furcolo in his American column decries the selection and Bundy. "Mr. Bundy is not just a bad administrator," Furcolo writes, "he is a wicked...