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...effort to bring Virginia back into the Democratic fold (in 1952 and 1956 the state went to Eisenhower), Kennedy appointed Charlottesville Lawyer William Battle, 39, son of former Governor John Battle, to direct his Virginia campaign. Bill Battle is another old Navy friend; in 1943 he commanded the PT-boat group that rescued Kennedy and his crew from an island after their PT boat had been sliced apart by a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific...
Praising His Looks. Alsop's colleagues were not far behind. Scripps-Howard Columnist Andrew Tully wrote glowingly of the candidate's heroic character: "This was the Jack Kennedy who saved a PT-boat crew in the Pacific's wartime waters." Smiled the Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond: "He is pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving...
...forced him to leave Princeton during his freshman year (when his health improved, he later went to Harvard). The Army rejected him because of a football injury to his back, but the Navy accepted him. The back was reinjured when a Japanese destroyer knifed through Lieut. Kennedy's PT boat in 1943. He spent most of 1944 in a Navy hospital, underwent a spinal disk operation, which was not fully successful. As a consequence, in October 1954, surgeons performed a delicate fusion of spinal disks. Slow to heal and set back by relapses that were complicated by the adrenal...
...caught the nation's eye with an enlarged version of his thoughtful college thesis, Why England Slept. Later, as a Navy lieutenant in the Solomon Islands, he became an authentic war hero, saved the lives of his crewmen after a Japanese destroyer knifed through their PT boat and sank...
...time two lance corporals of the army's Royal Engineers, with their officers' encouragement, had bested Dagnan's mark. Then civilians began hitting the road. Among them: a walker who drank 16 pt. of milk en route; a 14-year-old schoolboy; two bowler-hatted, brief-cased, brolly-toting civil servants from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey...