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Bowles made a stab at the Senate in 1958 (he and ex-Partner Benton ran against each other for the Connecticut Democratic nomination; both lost to a third candidate), then ran a successful race for the House, but gave up his seat this year to devote himself to Kennedy's campaign. Over the years, he has turned out dozens of articles and seven books on foreign affairs and economics, all of them vibrating with the liberal tones of the big-government planner and spender. With Kennedy's blessing he was chief author of the eloquent thousand and one Utopian promises in the Democratic platform in Los Angeles. He also served as a somewhat neglected Kennedy foreign policy adviser in the campaign.
Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India.
Just how deep Chester Bowles will be able to dig in his bag of ideas in his new job will depend on Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk. It could be very deep, for he will be, after all, No. 2 in the State Department.