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WHEN John Varick Tunney was first approached to run for Congress, he reacted with a frankness that he has since learned does not often make for political advantage. "People really think I ought to run for Congress," he wrote his wife. "Can you imagine that...
...registered Republican, and the district-the 38th, which included Riverside, his home-was markedly conservative. It also took some special insight by a pretty fair political professional, President John F. Kennedy. His advice, relayed through Edward Kennedy, Tunney's law-school roommate and close friend: drop the name Varick, by which Tunney had been called since childhood. The skeptical Tunney ran a poll: 66% of his potential constituents associated the name Varick with Russia and/or Communism. (In fact, it was the surname of a Revolutionary War ancestor.) At that, even his wife began calling him John. Finally, it took...
...voice is impassioned, resonant, "hooting" occasionally in the honored tradition of black preaching. Now and again the shouts of the preacher roll from behind the doors of Varick Memorial Church and out onto the quiet streets of Brooklyn's black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Pastor Calvin B. Marshall, stentorian proponent of black Christian radicalism, is reminding his parishioners that Christianity has a proper place in the black revolution...
...Kennedy was turned down by Harvard law school. He planned to go to Stanford, but his father decreed that he should stay in the East. He ended up at the University of Virginia law school, where Bobby had compiled an excellent record. Only an average student, Teddy teamed with Varick Tunney, son of Gene Tunney, to win the school's competition in simulated court cases. Teddy also distinguished himself by winning a beautiful wife. Blonde Joan Bennett, daughter of a New York City advertising executive, was attending Manhattanville College, where two of the Kennedy sisters had gone. Teddy...
...FLOREDA VARICK, B.S., MRS. Gainesville...