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...raft of Harvard players received honorable mention for the team. End Frank Ulcickas, tackle Joe Jurek, center and captain John O'Brien, and halfback Walt Grant received honorable mention for the offensive team. Linebackers Gene Skowronski and Bob Barrett and deep backs Paul Guzzi and Dave Poe received honorable mention on defense...
...Joe was the kind of guy who, if he wanted something bad enough, would get it and he didn't care how he got it," recollects Joe's ex-teammate, who tells this story on him. In this case, Joe wanted his Harvard H, and Boston politicos pressured the captain to put him in the game. In other cases, Joe wanted considerably more. What he wanted and what he got are the subject of this fascinating first biography of President Kennedy's father...
...book began as an article in FORTUNE (January 1963) that was reprinted in LIFE. Biographer Whalen, an associate editor of FORTUNE, took leave from the magazine to write the book, which he did without any explicit help from Joe Kennedy or any other member of the family. But the available material is voluminous, and the story is vividly told and carefully documented...
Smiles and Spitballs. Grandson of an Irish immigrant, son of a barkeeper-politician, Joe Kennedy grew up in the rough world of Boston ward politics and wanted out. Though most Roman Catholic boys went to church schools, Kennedy's parents were wealthy and ambitious enough to send him to Harvard. There he mingled with Yankee plutocrats among the alumni, kept them supplied with choice tickets to football games. With his flashing smile and disarming frankness, Joe got along with most anyone. On a summer cruise to Europe, he spotted Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson in the ship...
...career in politics shattered, Kennedy concentrated on his sons' careers. "His would be the driving will, theirs the legs that would go the distance," writes Whalen. Joe contributed not money alone but prodigious energy to Jack's various election campaigns. Staying in the background, not trying to influence Jack's opinions, he masterminded campaign strategy, persuaded acquaintances all over the country to help...