A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 25, 1969

THE last thing Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey wanted was to play tennis in the rain. But one damp day last month, he accepted Ethel Kennedy's invitation with little hesitation. After many a campaign trip with Senator Robert Kennedy, Gorey knew that a reporter anxious for an interview with Ethel had to take it on the run. Gorey not only posed his questions for this week's cover story on a soggy tennis court, but also spent one noontime driving Mrs. Kennedy to school to pick up her son Christopher, and another at Georgetown University Hospital, where Courtney Kennedy was having stitches removed...

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