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Former gridders like Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Torbert H. McDonald '40 moved on to careers in the Senate and House of Representatives. And Endicott "Babyface Assassin" Peabody, a football hero of the early 1940s, went on to serve as governor of Massachusetts...
...Markey tells it, however, the decision to run was almost a now-or-never proposition. Since 1954, the Seventh District has been represented in Congress by Torbert H. Macdonald '40. Macdonald became ill last spring, and there were many reports that he would not run for re-election. In May, he died unexpectedly, and 12 candidates eventually announced that they would run for his seat. But Markey was the first. The reason he decided to stay in the race, despite the presence of several mayors, a state senator, and Macdonald's administrative assistant, was that the re-election rate...
Incumbents Silvio O. Conte (R.) in the 1st district, Edward P. Boland (D.) in the 2nd, Robert F. Drinan (D.) in the 4th, Michael J. Harrington '58 (D.) in the 6th, Torbert H. MacDonald '40 in the 7th, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D.) in the 8th, John J. Moakley (D.) in the 9th, Margaret M. Heckler (R.) in the 10th, James A. Burke (D.) in the 11th and Gerry E. Studds (D.) in the 12th district all won re-election
...Torbert MacDonald '69 asks voters to ask the question "Paranoid or Pragmatist?" in assessing him as a potential city councilman. The question is well put. The electorate's decision to vote for him will depend on which one of those two ways they...
...would leave, the Dead would do a few more songs and then introduce the New Riders: Dave Torbert on bass: Mickey Hart (also from the Dead) on drums: David Nelson (who looks like a refugee from the Band) on mandolin and acoustic guitar: Garcia on pedal steel guitar; and that little fellow. John "Marmaduke" Dawson, composer lyricist and "prime mover" for the New Riders, a prince of acoustic guitarists and lead vocalists...