Clash of Clans

On the assumption--well-proved in Massachusetts politics--that the Irish are never so rough as when they turn on each other, Massachusetts has waited expectantly for months for the battle between Teddy and Eddie. Last week, with both back on native Boston soil after tours of foreign lands, the clash was ready to be joined. Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J. ("Eddie") McCormack Jr., 38, favorite nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, was ready to announce this week that he will indeed be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator; Edward R. ("Teddy") Kennedy, 30, youngest brother of the President, let it be known through friends that he will file shortly for the same spot. If Teddy wins, Massachusetts will be treated to the renewal of an even more interesting clan clash; chances are he would face George C. Lodge, 35, son of Henry Cabot Lodge, onetime Massachusetts senator and U.N. Ambassador.

In other political sparrings last week:

> Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Anton Nelson, 45, who survived a 1960 state sweep by Richard Nixon to become Wisconsin's first two-term Democratic Governor in this century, decided to announce for the Senate seat now held by venerable Republican Alexander Wiley, 77. Nelson has successfully pushed state aid to education, made major revisions in Wisconsin's tax structure for the first time in 50 years, revamped recreational facilities with a $50 million conservation program. Against Alex Wiley, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an unassailable moderate on domestic issues, Nelson's battle is apt to be uphill all the way.

>Tennessee's onetime (1953-59) Boy Governor Frank Goad Clement, who rocketed to national attention as the 1956 Democratic Convention's "How long, oh how long, America?" keynoter and afterward faded into a Nashville law practice, announced that he will run again for Governor. Said Clement, now 41: "I am ten years older than when I first ran for Governor and I hope ten years more mature." With meager opposition and no run-off Democratic primary (as in most other Southern states), Clement probably will win.

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