Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JACK D. BAGDADE, Winthrop, Jubilee Committee, Freshman basketball, House Committee, Junior Varsity Basketball, Junior usher, Chairman House Committee...
Second Mayflower. Beyond all these worries Jack Kennedy must stand for Senate re-election next year. The fact in itself is simple-but the problem is peculiar. To be sure, Kennedy has Democratic enemies, covert and overt, in Massachusetts. Congressman John McCormack is one example, although the foxy old House majority leader has recently been talking pro-Kennedy for all he is worth. The mutual esteem between Kennedy and Governor Foster Furcolo is at best on-again-off-again; some waspish Bostonians attribute it to the theory that "Gaelic and garlic don't mix." But Jack Kennedy is beyond...
...cannot slow down. A huge, headline-catching win over respectable Republican opposition in Massachusetts would give him a second wind. Then he could be off again on what, by the nature of the position he has staked out for himself, is bound sometimes to be a lonely way. Says Jack Kennedy: "An independent position is the only place for me. I'm a Northern Democrat who has some sense of restraint. I do pretty well in Massachusetts, and if that turns out to be typical of the nation -well, that will be fine...
...Texas home at Uvalde, onetime Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack'') Garner turned 89, struck a pose of grizzled gumption for a birthday photo. His birthday program: a few "blows for liberty" (bourbon and branch water), no outing, many visitors...
Massachusetts, also playing its firts game, lost its star center, Jack Foley, but boasts four returning starters. The team will have a height disadvantage, but U-Mass coach Bob Curran is counting on Norm Porter, the new 6-7 center, to take the major share of rebounds...