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‘9 . THE EXAMINER an OCTOBER 24, 1963 Victor Lasky’s “sFK: The Man And The Myth” (Continued Frem Page 1) . Then there was Timothy (Ted); ring in Jack's ears throughout his Honey Fitz, it was proof positive ~ Reardon, one of Joe Jr.'s buddies, | political career. _of the political virility of Grand- however, John Kennedy himself| apartment at 123 Bowdoin Street, | who was to be part of the Kennedy} Once Mike Neville, Kenndy’s' son Jack. So stirred was Grand- was hot an enrolled Democrat.| across from the State House on top) entourage all the way to the] rival in the primary, walked into! father Fitzgerald that he climbed The law clearly provided that|of Beacon Hill. White House. the State House press room with a’ on to a table at campaign head- while a serviceman could register) (Bobby and Teddy, slong | with | pt ‘Joseph P. Kennedy was) !0, bill hanging out of his breast quarters that night and danced 8 to te by mail, he must appear in/ their wives, have also wu the taking no chances with the likes of pocket. | stiff-legged Irish jig and sang in a tice: Jack Kennedy | legal add The truth is button he id. nedy ce ‘= igang ge eae Fir oaeerh 1 party. ‘ac’ ennedy | Jegal address. ie none mt said. ‘it was the swan song o I ood net done so. of them ever used the apartment | seasoned ward heelers. The ” Gomes The Clan ‘golorfu) and rascally breed of ‘ for any length of time The Ambassador had the final word on; m e Cla Boston Irish polities A new et ae ee aay was Ate apartment serves one ‘purpose | Who was to be put on the payr on,| | Meanwhile, fy ine Kecnedys ipreed of politician was sbout to Teand Tare had to be a certified | only: fo give the Kennedy brothers| The Ambassador brought in thes setting @ pattern that was take over... —~ a perty member for not less than '# political residence. ie poren Francis %, Morrissey: once baal to be repeated in future elections.» (Next—Freahman On The HN) why dove. haseaha Hd Gate dis. erat moved to bar ‘Bobby from or campaign manager. (By 1961, Un wee fen ted b: ‘wi ‘ y"s oversig' was is- * vi were supplemen' y wives -. covered on April 2. The following ; going te foe Ane a conven Morriseey = 3 emunicion ont and husbands and were to be re-' Truman All For dsy—twenty-seven days before, on © i groun® * —\ garded by many Bostonians as ° the filing day—he quietly slipped | Beas st & Bay State renisent weed the riae atung hin foreigners. “As soon as the last Ike Seeking GOP into City Hall where he registered * j ‘ . tvote is counted,” one newsman, as a Democrat. He did this des-1 ives oa . palatial Virginia estate| meet the = Fight pee dust as he bed said, “the Kennedys and their. Job, if He Wants pite the fact that the law per- done . wives husbands are hurrying. . . mitted no exceptions. ime Oe oes his Politics! | To teach Jack politics, the Am-|© the airport to catch the next NEY YORK (NY. News)—If A small, inconsequential techni- se. Q pees ly ime oe on nat) bassador brought in his first cousin plane out of town. They don’t Former President Eisenhower cstity? Perhaps. Yet, as Ralph years ack a ae Peron to | 208 Kane, a forty-year veteran of even wait until the tents are taken should decide he wants to ron for G. Martin and Ed Plaut put it 20 Peron” TV * varence with hie! the Bay State's political wars. Kane | G0wn.”) —- vice president, he has re right * @elicately in their friendly book, wife) ppea , provided young Jack with an in-| Kennedys swarmed into the 'Y “like anyone else,” Barry ©. “Frent Runner, Dark Horse,” tt : 4 sight into the mechanics of politi- wands, going from house to house, abel white House’ predecessor was “an embarrassing moment Chums—And Prot | 1. cal infighting. "In politics,” he ringing doorbells, cradling babies,! verea that opf ae een ucked that would have been fatal to any- ‘Tt was in the 1946 campaign that drummed into his protege’s bead,!and telling thousands of voters ooo, t ie nat BI show hes ene whose name wasn't Kennedy. -Jack Kennedy first employed the | “you have no friends, only co- what a wonderful brother Jack ab uu repens at igen ver * Takes Over From Brother \ techniques that were to bring him | conspirators.” It was Kane who'was. His sisters hlped organize “h endian e legality Joseph. Kennedy had originally electoral success ater success.) suggested that Kennedy avoid; neighborhood house parties. su nea wethen ike im the Ne. 2 envisioned his eldest son Joe Jr., First, he had gotten or to an early announcing for office until almost: Kennedy sometimes went to half spot, would strengthen GOP as the politician in the family. start. Long before his tivals be-/ the last minute. The idea was to a dozen of them in a single even~ tr. ket Trum n said the ont wa Tall, handsome, outgoing and ro-- stirred themselves, we bead suing keep the political opportunists|ing. The Kennedy organization he * tind ont fe to tr y wey Duct, Young Joe—the photographs PalEgning. Then e gan building from jumping into the primary—_ supplied everything—coffee, cook~ | (Frien as insist The'e cu tosit on show—was his father to the life, his own persona organization | an old Boston custom—hoping for! jes, china, silverware, flowers. --At' in. » int. is merely legal on ‘2 They were also alike ideologically. composed of college © pe war- jPayoffs to remove themselves as campaign headquarters a careful academic.) y . At Harvard Law School he helped time shipmates, and Ivy Leaguers.| candidates, -record was kept of everyone who “Rutes Self Out ; j Some were Republicans, and most . | \ organize a keep-America-out-of | 4 , ; Finally, on April 22, 1946, eight; attended the parties. Later, they| a5 ; . _lwere uncommitted ideologically. ys pril 24, y © Truman smilingly ruled himself war group and made speeches de Bat all pitched in to help out Good days affore the filing deadline, were asked to talk to their neigh- out as vice presidential timber for erying United States intervention , Jack Kennedy formally announced bors about Jack. the Democrats. in “foreign wars.” In one speech his candidacy for the Democratic! How much was spent? Only, ‘t's too late to start at 78,” he he declared the United States 'nomination for United States {Joe Kennedy could poasily have said, “but if I were 59——" would be better off dealing with 4) ABOUT THE ‘Representative from the Eleventh/known, His first cousin Joe! Other Truman remarks, in- Nazi-occupied Europe n @ barter | aoe ; :Massachusetis District “The | Kane said later it was “a stagger- eluded: ’ ” system than engageing jn total war AUTHOR ‘Semper of the times itnposes an|ing eum." But Kane contended, Regarding Mme. Ngo Dinh Nbu on the side of Great Britain. Lobigation upon every thinking) Most of it was unnecessary: “Jack -—“I don't know anything about Young Joe launched his political Victor Lasky, author of the | citizen to work diligently in peace,| could have gone to Congress like her and I don't give a damn about person to enroll as a member of a | Bowdoin Street apartment as their these, He -brought in’ a phalanx career in 1940 as an anti-Roosevelt | hing “JFK: THE MAN AND ‘as we served tirelessly in war,” he everyone else for ten cents.” her.” delegate at the Democratic’) rHE MYTH,” is a walking en- ' declared. Then why did his father spend Regarding his stand against National Convention, pledged to cyclopedia of Kennedyana. Bis | Ran On Hia War Record #0 much? | actal intermarriage—“I've re- support Jamee A. Farley for Presi- Ff first pook on Kennedy, called i Kennedy ran on his heroic war} Because, said Kane, he was, received a atack of matl and alt dent. The episode provided “JOHN F. KENNEDY, WHAT'S J record. According to the private taking no chances on any possible, but a few letters favored my another chip of ice in the cool ex-| | REHIND THE IMAGE?”, was § polls financed by his father, this slip-up. “Everything his father’ position, which js just common panse that eventually divided the } published just before the 1960]! is what the people were interested got, he bought and paid for,” he' senee. Most of them came Kennedy and Roosevelt families. |} election and was an exhaustive f| in—the story of how he won the: added. “And politics is like war.’ from the South.” Four years later, Joseph Kennedy |{ comparison of Kennedy’s vot- #' Navy and Marine Corps Medal jn | It tekes three things to win. The The Valachi hearings—“1 think Jr. died a hero's death in the | ing record in the Senate with J! the South Pacific. And Kennedy first is money and the second is they have some value.” European war. And it was fore~ | his platform as a Presidential |: with appropriate modesty would money and the third is money.” | The three-most notorious Miss~ ordained that, as the next in line, -candidate. ~ ‘tel) and retell the story before Primary day—June 18, 1946— ouri characters——Jesse James, John F. Kennedy would take his His current book is being }\ campaign audiences, usually re- finally roNed ground. This was bandit; Champ Clark, noted con- piace and carry on for the family. published by Macmillan & iferring to himself in the thira | the day that counted. The victor | gressional figure; Harry S. Truman, “J thought everybody knew Company and is expected to be J person, (The commanding in the primary would be the next one-time president. about that.” Father Joe once said | the major publishing event of | officer of the PT 109, believing it| Congressman. to author Joe McCarthy. “Jack eerie And to no one’s at” ise, T ; was the year. | to ie a Japanese destroyer, turned n great “surprise,, HAND THAT WASHES went into politics because Young ” Lasky - authored || the bow of his PT to make a tor- when the votes were counted, Jack |. Joe died, Young Joe was going to ” Kennedy’ led all the rest.| CANNES, Fr WNs)— oun, ; + vee y’s name e . , France (WNS)—The be the politician in the family.jp (w'th Ralph de Toledano) }) pedo attack He received 22,183 votes, almost! latest beauty product for teen-age When he died, Jack took his place.” || the best-selling sccount of Then he would describe the death | gouple that obtained by his closest’ girls is a bar of soap made fn the Who's Jack Kennedy? the Alger Hiss case, “SEEDS struggle that lay ahead between | riya] Mike Neville. | snape of the hand ot Johnny Hal. At the outset of the 1948 cam-|f OF TREASON,” published In}! collectivism and capitalism, wind-| 14 was for the Clan Kennedy e lyday, France's rock ‘n’ roll sing- paign the voters wondered who 1950. oT ing up with this stock exhortation:/ gweet victory, indeed. For Old ing star. . - this handsome, seemingly shy out- A graduate of the tough fj “We in this country must be will- oe eider was. He didn't live in|] Chicago school of journalism, ing to battle for the old ideas Botton and was # newcomer to Lasky has worked on the CHI- which have proved their value, politics. True, his parents were CAGO SUN, covered World {| with the same enthusiasm that born in the District and his grand-|f| War I] as o Stars &, Stripes peaple do for new ideas and Zather hed controlled its votes.|[ war correspondent, then joined sreebl.” But he had grown up elsewhere, |] the staff of the NEW YORK One critic noted it sounded more and he knew little about the area}]| WORLD TELEGRAM & SUN. |] like Joseph Patrick Kennedy than he wanted to represent in Con- He has also written hun- Jj like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. gress. Later he observed that|| dreds of magazine articles on Asx the campaign progressed, the only person whom he really |{ national and international af- |} Kennedy's Ivy League advisers hhnew there at the time was his |] fairs — from THE SATURDAY }} proposed changing the tenor of the gvandfather Honey Fitz, the for- EVENING POST to the NEW I! speech. While there was nothing mer Boston mayor and veteran of |] LEADER to THE SATURDAY J] wrong with patriotism as a gim- many political wars. He was then REVIEW. mick, they pointed out that the eighty-tbree and living in retire- Today Lasky writes a weekly }} Eleventh District had some serious ment at the Hote) Bellevue, a|[ column for NORTH AMERI- bread-and-butter problems. A political hangout adjacent to the}] CAN NEWSPAPER ALLI~ J) new speech was evolved by a Winter Rejuvenation No Job For A Slouch VENICE, Italy — (WNS) — Royal beauty expert Luc- chino Bontempi has put the aging contessas he counsels on & winter rejuvenation routine of pinching, kneading. grim- “acing and yawning to take at least five years off their ages. > oe stimulate blood circulation and get rid of facial poisons and impurities, he prescribes wetting the face with warm water, then pinching it all over with thumb and index finger. . State House on Beacon Hill. ANCE and THE EXAMINER ]} sort of brain-storming, one that Later, the skin should be kneaded with both hands But in politics, money atones for called “Sey It Ranta ne discussed such issues es price and as if i were dough being prepared for the baking oven. many deficiencies. ives in New York wi js f|rent contro], more and better it should ted, st d lightly punched. The problem of a Jegal residence |} Wife, Pat, and his poodle, |] housing, higher minimum wages, Then it uld be patted, slapped and lightly p Royal ladies are also advised to yawn 15 times “as large as possible,” then close the mouth with the lips inside before lowering the chin to touch the neck and pivoting the head 206 times. ,- , . After that, they should pronounce the letters “O” and “7” 17 times, as openly as possible. They can finish up by pushing the chin forward, thrusting out the lower lip, and making “horrible grimaces and expressions.” . - was quickly solved. A suite was Charlie Brown, jobs, ete. gwented for Jack at the Bellevue Attiret the rest of the candidates Hotel, and in filing his papers as a . laughed Kennedy off. Then, as eandidate for office he vsed it as} Old Jack. There were, for ex-|the campaign progressed, the his, official address. Actually | ample, Lem Billings, Jack's room- | taunte changed to° outright indlg- wntil then, his legal residence was| mste from Choate, in from Balti-| nation. Charges were voiced that Palm Beach, the home of his] more; and Red Fay who, having] Old Joe Kennedy was trying t father. Later he acquired as his | served with Jack in the PT squad-} buy election for his “carpet- . .@fficial, residence. a, three room) ron, Mew, in {rom San, Francisco. | baggy son"—charges that were to HEC pada eet