Word: nephew
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...enough to force Attorney General Edward McCormack Jr. to concede midway through the first ballot when trailing 691-360. Just a few weeks ago, Eddie figured he was well ahead. Both through his own record as a regular Massachusetts Democrat and as House Speaker John McCormack's nephew, Eddie commanded the loyalties of the state's party pros. But those pros proved loyal only up to the point where they came into conflict with the techniques and power of a Kennedy...
Massachusetts Democratic conventions are traditionally three-ring circuses, and the 1962 edition was no exception, despite the intense national attention centered on the main bout between President Kennedy's youngest brother and Speaker McCormack's favorite nephew...
...senatorial race in particular-- more so because of the candidates than the issues--will excite the attention of the state and much of the nation as well. Among the contenders already announced are Edward M. Kennedy '54, younger brother of the President; Edward J. McCormack, nephew of the Speaker of the House; George Cabot Lodge '50, son of the former U.N. Ambassador and senator; H. Stuart Hughes, grandson of former Presidential aspirant and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and Laurence Curtis '16, a Boston congressman who is evidently related to no one but is nonetheless the former law clerk...
...same thing, but the Hughes effort will probably get the most national attention. Professor Hughes after all is running as an independent candidate for the two remaining years of the Senate seat which used to belong to the President--a seat which the President's brother, the Speaker's nephew, and the ex-Senator's son also covet. There is no incumbent and no presidential race to blur the issues. If Hughes gets a big vote he will certainly dramatize his platform and advance the pressure not only for gradual disengagement of the United States from areas of Cold...
...writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this self-pity. You're 40. It's about...