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Died. Evelyn Emily Mary Fitzmaurice Cavendish, 89, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, mother-in-law of British Prime Minister Macmillan, and grandmother-in-law of the late Marchioness of Hartington, who was Kathleen Kennedy, sister of Senator John Kennedy; in London...
Kennedy was still in the hospital when he learned that his older brother, Joe Kennedy Jr., had been killed on a bomber raid against German V-2 installations in Normandy (a sister, Kathleen-"Kick"-Kennedy, the Marchioness of Hartington, was killed in an air crash in France in 1948). Invalided out of the Navy, Jack Kennedy hooked up with International News Service, covered the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations and the Potsdam conference-and decided to run for the Massachusetts Eleventh District congressional seat being vacated by indestructible James Michael Curley, who had just been elected mayor...
Died. Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington, 28, bright-eyed second daughter (of nine children) of Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime, (1937-41) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; in a plane crash; near Privas, France. The Marquess, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, was killed in action 18 weeks after their marriage in 1944, four weeks after her brother, U.S. Navy Lieut. Joseph P. Jr., was killed on an operational flight...
...guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash off to a regimental dinner, bought up several girls and later disposed of them at a profit-which, of course, went to charity too. One of his transactions involved 27-year-old Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kennedy, of Boston...
...Kennedy was not embittered; he is not a bitter man. And he had had worse troubles: within two months last year, his eldest son, Joseph Jr., and his son-in-law, the Marquess of Hartington, had both been killed in action. He had tried to take his mind off his troubles; he had bought property in Manhattan and Albany, finally paid $17,000,000 for the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. The antidote did not work. Said Kennedy: "I thought I'd get a kick out of such trading, but I didn...