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Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Trademarked by his boyishly unruly shock of brown hair, slim Jack Kennedy, 39, has looks, brains, personality, an attractive wife (who is expecting her first baby in October). He has a fine World War II record as a PT-boat skipper in the Pacific, a noteworthy vote-getting ability in a pivotal state (he defeated Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. by 70,700 votes in 1952), reputation as an able, independent-thinking, middle-of-the-road member of both House (1946-52) and Senate. If the Democrats are to make their big pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Who for Vice President? | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...racing stable, looked carefree as he emplaned for Brussels and a convention of the World Veterans Federation. Flying with him was Disabled Veteran Harold Russell, onetime cinemactor (The Best Years of Our Lives) and an official of the World Veterans Fund headed by Vanderbilt, a wartime Navy lieutenant and PT-boat skipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...passing the measure, the Council officially expressed an opinion that physical condition of the student working nine hours or more per week would not suffer from the omission of one hour of exercise. The group also argued that legal reduction of PT would eliminate illegal cutting practices, and decrease the extra burden on students who must work...

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: Council Approves P.T. Cut For Freshmen With Jobs | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

Although students with excessive employment loads have been eligible for PT reduction as "hardship cases" upon petition to the administration and Department of Athletics, Council inquiry revealed "only two or three such cases" this year...

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: Council Approves P.T. Cut For Freshmen With Jobs | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

HIGGINS INC., famed World War II PT boatmaker, will pass out of family hands and into the W.R. Grace shipping empire. Andrew J. Higgins' four sons, who pulled the company out of its postwar slump by diversifying into pleasure boats and offshore oil drilling equipment, have given Grace and a New Orleans syndicate a long-term option, but are keeping mum on the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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