People: Mar. 8, 1963

To the swank Lodge at Smugglers' Notch in Stowe, Vermont, bent on a little weekend schussing, went Freshman Senator Teddy Kennedy, Wife Joan, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others near and dear. It was all sparkling fun, until Teddy, in presumably unphotogenic après-ski togs, was confronted outside the Smugglers' Den lounge by Roving Photographer Philip N. Lawson of the Vermont Sunday News. Elections over, the Senator declined to have his picture taken with a roving beauty queen, but Lawson clicked anyway. Bugged by the shutter. Teddy reddened, and the incident swiftly snowballed. Sunday News Publisher William Loeb, a New England Republican...

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