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...Kennedy ended a brilliant public career. Born May '29, 1917, into a family with deep-rooted political interests, Mr. Kennedy achieved distinction as a naval officer and as a congressman and senator from Massachusetts. He became at 43 the thirty-fifth President of the United States and the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency. He was also the sixth alumnus of Harvard to attain the nation's highest office...
...body of John F. Kennedy, the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency, was flown last night to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. He will lie in state in the East Room of the White House today, and will then be moved to the Rotunds of the Capital...
Bach & Brubeclc. The group's acknowledged skill only emphasizes its relative youth: First Violinist Evgeny Smirnov is 26, while Cellist Yuly Turovsky, the youngest member, has not yet turned 25. Indeed, to look at them, Barshai's wonders could pass for young American jazzniks-especially Bassist Feodor Plyat, 26, who wears horn-rims, and Oboist Evgeny Nepalo, 27, whose lank 6 ft. 4 in. is topped by a brown crewcut. Though it prefers Bach, the group does, in fact, dig jazz. Its preference: the clean-lined cool of Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck...
Devil's Footboard. That their youngest son took up art was reason for sackcloth and ashes at the Aronson home. His first one-man show drew a drubbing from the Jewish Daily Forward's art critic. Another critic called his seven-toot-long Last Supper, with its disciples writhing as if from indigestion, "a suitable footboard for the devil's bed." Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing...
...sharply raised earnings in the five years that he has been president of Standard Oil (Indiana). Last week he took pride in a 35% earnings jump to $140 million for the first nine months of 1963, and in winning a big oil concession in Egypt. One of the youngest men ever to head a major U.S. oil company, South Carolina-born Swearingen joined Standard as a chemical engineer at 20, rose through research and production to become president at 39. He has drastically consolidated a sprawling organization, using automation to chop the work force by 25% while increasing output...