Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedys are famed for their family solidarity, but Old Joe and Teddy have always been especially close. When their father suffered his stroke last year, all three sons hurried to his bedside in Palm Beach, Fla., but it was Teddy who sat up with him all night for three nights, while the others went home to sleep. When Jack and Bobby expressed their hesitation about Teddy's candidacy, Joe laid down the law. Said he: "You boys have what you want now, and everyone else helped you work to get it. Now it's Ted's turn...
...Liar? Capehart is working. Last week he abandoned Washington to campaign in his bull-like voice, beat a fist into a palm, and roar: "There's a hundred ships loaded with Russian equipment on the high seas heading for Cuba. This nation had better act." At a Sigma Delta Chi luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the candidates clashed headon. Bayh claimed that Capehart had drawn $250,000 in federal benefits on his own farming operation while "trying to reduce the income of farmers," and that he had "deliberately violated" the rules of a Senate briefing on Cuba...
Just four months later, Durie became engaged to Firmin Desloge IV, scion of an old, wealthy Roman Catholic family in St. Louis. They were married on Jan. 2, 1939, at the winter home of her parents in Palm Beach. After a Nassau honeymoon, they lived in St. Louis for eight years, had one child, also named Durie...
...boat during World War II. A friend of the late Ernest Hemingway, Shevlin is an avid big-game hunter, polo player, deep-sea fisherman and golfer. Durie and Tom Shevlin now own a white colonial mansion across North Ocean Boulevard from the Joseph P. Kennedy estate in Palm Beach...
Oscar for Romance. Durie had known the Kennedy family even before moving to Palm Beach; she dated young Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. before the war. No one is now inclined to reminisce on how long she and Jack knew each other, but they dated each other in the winter...