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EVEN more interesting than the story of John F. Kennedy and Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin is the story of the story-who started it, why it grew, how it finally came out in the U.S. press. See PRESS, An American Genealogy...
...depending on who he was, he either accepted it as fact or thought it a good joke. Newsmen heard about it and, understandably, became curious. The best, fastest, most direct way of checking seemed to be by asking the parties involved: President Kennedy and Mrs. Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin...
Both sides declined to deny. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger even put his refusal to comment off the record. Durie Malcolm, now Mrs. Thomas H. Shevlin, either scoffed at the whole thing as too "ridiculous" to discuss or dismissed queries with the comment: "I'm bored with this." The White House reasoning, no doubt, was that a categorical denial would acknowledge the story and get it into print, whereas off-the-record "no comments" would leave it in a vague limbo where it might eventually...
Historian Samuel Eliot Morison ('08) discourses on Leavitt & Peirce cigarettes: "There were no cheap brands except Home Runs, Sweet Caps, and Richmond Straight Cut, which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale football captain, collected a royalty on every package we boycotted them." Acceptable smokes of the day were Turkish Delight, Egyptian Prettiest, Pharaoh's Daughter (Sweet Caporal still survives...
...Shevlin (Y) broke the hammer record with a heave of 152 feet, 8 inches, and H. W. Gregson set another when he won the mile in 4:21.2. W. A. Schick became the first of eight Crimson runners to share the existing Harvard 100-yard dash mark, when...