If the Irish of Massachusetts are heard to speak of Presidential Nominee Jack Kennedy as "John Fitzgerald," they have not turned stiffly formal toward one of their own. With the state's Democratic primary looming Sept. 13, such formality is the essence of clarity. Not that anybody wants too much clarity, for no fewer than eleven Kennedys—including seven Johns—hope to hitchhike into office this year on Jack Kennedy's bandwagon.
At the top of the emerald green ticket is doughty John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did...
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