PEOPLE

January 25, 1965

The older Choate boy had had all he could take from that perpetual dormitory noisemaker, young Jack Kennedy, so he set out to fix him. Reported 15-year-old Jack in a letter (below) to a friend at Lawrenceville: "The other night a member of the Student Council got me out on the track and had me running a mile &� straight. He had some kind of a wire coat hanger and every time I slowed up he would smack me on the tail. He was a track man and he went fast as hell. I was so dammed pooped that I could hardly walk the next day." Last week at an auction in New York the Kennedy letter was sold for $2,700.