Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1963, John F. Kennedy was already speculating on his next election campaign, more than a year away. In this month's McCall's, his longtime buddy Paul Fay Jr. recalls a conversation with the late President about his Republican opponents: "The man I don't want to run against is George Romney," he told Fay. "That fellow could be tough. No drinking, no smoking. Imagine someone we know going off for 24 or 48 hours to fast and meditate, awaiting a message from the Lord on whether to run or not. Does that sound like...
...Seattle reform movement to become the only man to serve three terms as Governor of Washington State (1941-45, 1949-57), bringing parsimony and Presbyterian morality to the office, but lost a 1956 Senate race, retired from politics to a job as president and later chairman of McCall Corp.; of leukemia and a heart ailment; in Seattle...
...clan. The Kennedy candor comes through with engaging clarity in the reminiscences of Paul ("Red") Fay, a fellow PT boat commander, close friend and campaign aide, whom Kennedy appointed Under Secretary of the Navy. In his forthcoming book, The Pleasure of His Company (Harper & Row), now being serialized by McCall's, Fay recalls some other revealing Kennedyisms. "When the war is over and you are out there in sunny California," Kennedy told San Franciscan Fay in 1945, "I'll be back here with Dad trying to parlay a lost PT boat and a bad back into a political...
...iambic trimeter is charming, in a wistful, childish way-like something from the bottom of a young Emily Dickinson's trunk. In this case, the poetess is Jacqueline Kennedy, whose two quatrains, titled Dream, are published in the June McCall's. She wrote them...
Nick Hoogs and assistant senior tutor March McCall won a crucial three set doubles match that brought Lowell victory. Chris Couglin, Charlie Whipple, and Ron Chester topped Tilot's third, fourth, and fifth men. Number one man Eric Wallach and coach Steve Griffith sparked close wins over Dunster, which finished third, and Winthrop, which was sixth behind Kirkland and Leverett...