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Kevin P. Crane '71 is looking to carry on the family political tradition. He is the son of Edward Crane '35, former Cambridge mayor and city councilor. Young Crane is running his own campaign as an independent, and has not sought the endorsement of Cambridge Convention...
...more than just a desk. It had once belonged to John C. Calhoun, and that alone made it practically a sacred relic. But it had also been used by Huey P. Long, the Kingfish himself, while he served in the U.S. Senate, and then by his son Rus sell. South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston coveted that desk. Russell Long was running for Senate majority whip in 1964 when the matter of the desk came up. Long needed every vote he could command or cajole from his colleagues. His was a classic dilemma, solved in classic Russell Long style...
Long's climb to the top has not been completely smooth. As the son of Depression Populist Huey Long, he attracted close scrutiny. And he was not found wanting. Richard Russell, the late Georgia Senator who served through six Administrations, called him the second smartest Senator he ever knew. The first smartest, Russell said, was his father...
Pointing to the crowds jammed into his son's insurance-office-turned-campaign-headquarters, waiting for marching orders, the white-haired field marshall boasts, "These people never used to come out to work for me, but they do this year. They used to take me for granted, but now when they hear maybe they shouldn't, they come out." The publicity, he maintains, had a reverse effect from what most people expected. "It just generated a lot of people to come out. I just couldn't generate any interest the past few years. But now I'm getting...
...cosmetic personality. When his father dies several years ago he did not go to his funeral because it would have interrupted his training for a contest that would be held two months later. Perhaps he was hostile toward his policeman father who never came to terms with his son's weightlifting fetish. But there's something more, I fear, that was wrong there...