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...that everything went according to plan. Jack Kennedy's working headquarters was the drawing room of his Georgetown home. There, a wood fire in the grate, a toy donkey belonging to his daughter Caroline in the corner, a book about Congress and Government spending at his elbow, Kennedy met visitors, discussed his problems and his hopes...
...dignified red-brick home at 3307 N Street in Washington's historic Georgetown section last week became a sort of center of Government-making more news than the White House. In and out all during the week hurried top-ranking Democrats. From time to time, John Fitzgerald Kennedy emerged to hold front-step press conferences, most often having to do with appointees to his new Administration team. But for all the affairs of state that weighed upon him. Jack Kennedy quite often seemed like any other bedraggled, bewildered father. whose wife was away having another baby...
Only occasionally did he manage to get away to the relative quiet of his five-room suite in the old Senate Office Building. Late one afternoon, he padded through the mild Georgetown air to visit with Neighbor Dean Acheson-thus sparking rumors that Acheson would surely have a job in the new Administration. Kennedy breakfasted at home one morning with Foreign Policy Adviser Chester Bowles, who looked a little dour upon leaving-thus sparking rumors that he had not been offered the kind of job he had hoped for. Kennedy got a visit, too, from New Mexico's Democratic...
Twice almost every day, Kennedy slipped over to the Georgetown University Hospital to see his wife and newborn son. John Jr., he told the press, would be baptized soon. Inevitably, a reporter asked Kennedy if he wanted his boy to grow up to be President. Replied the new papa, commonsensibly: "I haven't thought about it. I just want for him to be all right." After visiting the baby with his father, Millionaire Joe Kennedy, the Pres ident-elect revealed that "we finally decided who the baby looks like. He looks like Dad." Who decided that? Replied Jack...
...badly disfiguring in Negroes. It is characterized by smooth, light-colored patches of skin from which the natural pigment has disappeared. When it attacks the face, vitiligo sometimes produces a mottled, owlish visage. Victims usually cover the splotches with makeup or, in desperation, resort to tattooing-which rarely helps. Georgetown University's Dr. Robert Stolar last week announced that he got dramatic results from treating vitiliginous Negroes with a drug called monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone (MBEHQ). The drug's effect; it turns Negro skin white...