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...long shadows cast by his glamorous, extraverted older brothers and sisters, Bobby was all but overwhelmed. He was naturally shy, physically slight and never much of a student, but he compensated with grim determination to succeed. Recalls a Milton Academy classmate: "It was much tougher in school for him than the others-socially, in football, with studies." In the closing months of the war, Second Class Seaman Kennedy served aboard the newly commissioned destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (named for his brother, who died in an airplane explosion over the English Channel). But though Joe died for his country...
...boos and catcalls that he had got all week. Smiling, he waved at them and darted into the lobby, where again a mob of onlookers, including a heavy sprinkling of resident dowagers, joined in the heckling. At the elevator Khrushchev turned toward the grim-faced elderly ladies, uttered one Milton Berlesque "Boo!" and stepped aboard...
...Johns Hopkins' President Milton Eisenhower, 61, veteran of previous successful reigns at Kansas State College and Penn State University, has given direction to a famed but floundering campus (2,400 full-time students) whose undergraduates had seemed forgotten amid the brilliance of its graduate students. Eisenhower has restored balance, raised faculty salaries, will use Ford's money first for new science facilities...
...reading on two-by-three cards. After the convention, he selected some 200 items, had them photostated, and arranged them into his nugget book. Included in it are quotations from men as varied as Churchill, De Gaulle, Lincoln, Asoka (early apostle of Buddhism), Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Milton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Will Rogers, as well as some stray doggerel that happens to appeal...
Jackpot Bowling (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Milton Berle is host in a new program involving the best U.S. professional bowlers in alley-fighting competition for big-time pin money...