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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperate hours of Jack Kennedy's battle with Estes Kefauver for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1956, Kennedy's good friend and fellow Roman Catholic, John Bailey, Connecticut Democratic state chairman, circulated a memorandum among top Democrats at the Chicago convention. Wrote Bailey: "There is, or can be, a Catholic vote," and the way to make the most of it, he insisted, was to put Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy on the ticket.* Kennedy narrowly lost the vice-presidential nomination, but set to work within weeks to build toward the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Catholic Issue | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

Indiana's Frank McKinney, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a great friend of Harry Truman, a Catholic and a strong Symington man, expressed the reaction of some of the bosses. He believes that Kennedy's Catholicism will make him too controversial. Said he last week in Phoenix: "The Democratic Party cannot afford to create hardships or disadvantages for itself." Will Catholics desert the Democrats if Kennedy is rejected? "They might, but that is the chance we'll have to take." Other Democratic leaders believe that Kennedy can be elected with no more difficulty than besets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Catholic Issue | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...major shock of the week was the announcement that Jeremy Fry, 35, a longtime bohemian friend of Tony Armstrong-Jones, had withdrawn as best man at the royal wedding next month. The stated reason : a recurrence of jaundice. When clamorous newsmen asked if Fry were stepping down for any reason apart from his health, a royal spokesman replied: "No comment." The sensational Sunday newspaper, The People, breathlessly revealed that in 1952 Fry had been arrested in Hyde Park, fined ?2 after pleading "guilty to a minor offense," and stated in court, "I'm afraid I was rather drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Second Best Man | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...More for their strong taste than from the ads. When former Reynolds Chairman S. Clay Williams jokingly asked his Camel-puffing friend Franklin Roosevelt for a testimonial, F.D.R. offered this one: "Only the President of the United States and Clay Williams have throats strong enough to smoke Camels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Navy, where Reynolds had less than 6% of the business. He stayed at it for two years, worked so hard that Reynolds had 25% to 30% of the Navy market when he left. In 1936 he met Elizabeth Palmer Christian, a Virginia banker's daughter, at a friend's wedding, quickly decided to marry her. Three years later he became Reynolds' assistant sales manager. After a hitch as a Navy lieutenant commander in the war (he was landlocked in Intelligence), Gray was moved onto Reynolds' board in 1947, became a vice president in 1949, moved up to president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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