Every Clod Has a Silber Lining

Boston

THE MASSACHUSETTS gubernatorial story this year is a tale of two who weren’t there— Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, who played reluctant debutante all last year before finally doing a Coolidge and choosing not to run; and Congressman Joseph Kennedy, ditto, who has clearly chosen to wait ’til his uncle relinquishes that God-given family Senate seat some time in the twenty-first century—and Dr. John Silber, president of Boston University, the guy who by common wisdom shouldn’t be in the race at all.

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David Brudnoy

Boston

THE MASSACHUSETTS gubernatorial story this year is a tale of two who weren’t there— Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, who played reluctant debutante all last year before finally doing a Coolidge and choosing not to run; and Congressman Joseph Kennedy, ditto, who has clearly chosen to wait ’til his uncle relinquishes that God-given family Senate seat some time in the twenty-first century—and Dr. John Silber, president of Boston University, the guy who by common wisdom shouldn’t be in the race at all.