Word: skakel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 33, former chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, who resigned last week after three years of tireless probing, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 31: their seventh child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Kerry. Weight...
Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 32, tenacious, windy-haired chief counsel for the McClellan committee, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 28: their sixth child, fourth son; in Washington. Name: Michael. Weight...
When the story reached A.P.'s Seattle bureau, a wire-service man quickly knocked it down by establishing that 1) Dave Sr. had spent the weekend in Seattle, 2) Dave Jr. is still unmarried. In Washington, Bob Kennedy said he had not been at the Skakels'. In Manhattan, an A.P. man checked a picture taken at the party and realized that the man identified as Dave Jr. was not the Teamster boss's son. But Connecticut's Stamford Advocate (circ. 24,674), which originated the story, insisted that George Skakel had "solemnly confirmed" that the Becks...
...nights after the party Mrs. George Skakel penitently informed the Advocate that the whole story was a "gag." Bob Kennedy's wife admitted that she was in on the fun, and sighed, "It was crazy...
Since the socially impeccable Mrs. Skakel had told the Advocate about the Becks, invited the paper to take pictures, and had helped the Advocate's free-lance photographer set up the shot of the guest she introduced as Dave Jr. (father had supposedly left), the Advocate cut loose with an acid apology on Page One. In an open letter to the Becks, Managing Editor E. R. McCullough explained: "Frankly, we believed the Skakels on Saturday night and Monday morning, and we suppose we've got to go along with their latest story . . . If you have any thoughts...