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One Man's Family. That was that—for now. But the issue of Kennedyism may well persist beyond November. If Teddy gets to the Senate, he will still have to stand for re-election in 1964—on the same ticket with the President. Nothing could be better calculated to drive home the issue of the Government's becoming a citadel for one man's family. Yet that possibility obviously did not bother the Democratic voters of Massachusetts last week. In fact, they could only regret that Old Joe Kennedy had run out of sons.
*Joseph Jr. (who was killed over Europe as a World War II flyer) made the varsity squad, but never earned his letter. Jack suffered the first of his back injuries while scrimmaging with the jayvees against the varsity. Bobby earned three letters, made first string in his senior year. He also broke his leg in a scrimmage, stubbornly kept on playing until he collapsed. Back in 1911. Joe Sr. won his H in baseball.
**In December 1960, Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo appointed Benjamin A. Smith II, 46, a Harvard roommate of the President's and a former mayor of Gloucester, to fill the seat until the 1962 election. Last week the President named Smith to be his representative at the October independence celebration of the young African nation of Uganda.