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...University in 1939 as a Rhodes scholar. He met Jack Kennedy at a diplomatic reception in London, where Jack's father was U.S. Ambassador. They met again the next summer, when both were vacationing in Munich, and again in the Solomon Islands just after Kennedy had become a PT boat hero. "I liked him and found him interesting," says White, who won two bronze stars of his own as a naval intelligence lieutenant on an aircraft carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FROM TRIPLE THREAT TO THE BENCH | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Heading upward on the hit parade is a new record, PT 109, by Cowboy Crooner Jimmy Dean, setting to doggerel the wartime exploits of President Kennedy and sung in the manner of Big Bad John. Sample lyrics: In '43 they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Big John | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Peter, 22 next week, scored even higher on Broadway when he opened this season in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole. The play was forgettable, but Peter-as a bright, engaging, neurotic soldier-was not. Warner Bros, is testing him for the part of John F. Kennedy in PT 109, and Producer Ross Hunter has signed him to a seven year contract. Their father is 56 and still busier than either of his offspring. Three more Henry Fonda films will soon be released (Advise and Consent, The Longest Day, How the West Was Won), and next week he opens on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Springtime for Henry | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...Such is not, after all, what they came here for. In any case, the performers' backgrounds and talents vary so greatly that uniform standards of achievement are out of the question; conversely, judging a student merely on time spent would make a good mark as meaningless as one in PT...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Scholars and Performers | 2/10/1962 | See Source »

...Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (4) 10. PT 109, Donovan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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