Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
BY SID MOODY
AP Newsfeatures Writer

ways had been q summertime
street.
1t begins with q yacht club.
ends at q golf course, and
along its sunlit half mile
amble herds Of barefoot chill
dren, a sprinkling Of
starched maids. tanned young
matrons and any number Of
pets including Buckets, a
downcast basset hound who
once was the neighborhood's
best-known figure as he
moped about as If some one
had pocketed his last bone.
Irving avenues only preSi-
Dental affiliation - and q
fragile one used to be the
George Washington garbage
collecting agency which
beachcombs the backdoor
refuse cans. y
Then one Of the streets
few Democrats became Presi-
dent of the United States.
Irving avenues dangerous
season in the sun hasn't
been the same since.
Like his neighbors, John F.
Kennedy chose to live on
Irving avenue because 1t Of
fered seclusion, sailing,
swimming and shutdown tram
quillity. And because he
could afford it.
And much like gin rummy
players in no mans land cut
ting and dealing midst the
battles roar. the President
and his neighbors have
carried on heroically as
though nothing has changed.
This requires a high order Of
craftsmanship when hell
copterS rattle overhead,
Secret Service men rustic in
the shrubbery and tourists
from all over North America
drive as slowly as police will
permit down Irving avenue
hoping to see q Kennedy
any Kennedy--at play.
Hyannis Port, where about
the only crime is to 60 SWIM
ming less than an hour after
eating, used to have only one
policeman and his patrol car.
Now tanned Secret Service
agents are discreetly every
where; telephone booth-like
guard stations, painted light
cream to match the color of
the new fence around the
presidential house. dot the
neighborhood; a neighboring
mother can't plan a wedding
reception for Der daughter
without taking the Secret
Service into her confidence;
uniformed police try to MAIN
tain their dignity while chill
dren frolic about them de-
handing they play ball. Only
Buckets, numbering indiffer-
emily under and around the
security Gordon. seems to have
retained his independence.
Strain Too Much
Yet a survey turned up
only one Hyannis Porter who
cracked under the strain Of
presidential togetherness.
I'm r." he confided. This
guy is going to be in eight
years, and I'm not going to
last that long" So he picked
up and moved to Osterville,
five miles away.
But if Kennedy has had his
effect on the neighborhood,
1t hasn't all been one way.
Just before he was to take
off for Vienna to meet Khru-
shchev, Kennedy dropped off
at his summer home for some
preSummit repose. AS the sky
lightened and the lighthouses
along Nantucket Sound flick
cred off for the night. the
neighborhood youngsters
massed on the lawn Of the
Kennedy compound for q pre-
breakfast romp. 1t came to a
frozen halt when a voice that
was a dead ringer for that
OF Vaughan Meader roared
from an upstairs bedroom:
Knock it off"
The President once was a
barefoot boy Of Hyannis Port
He learned to sail and swim
and run in the sun here. IN
Ike the chartered elegance OF
his homes in Palm Beach OF
Middleburg, the President
owns his home here. The vot-
ers never can turn him out
:, of 1t. He has roots in Hyan-
mis- Port. His family has beer
coming here since the l920s
Hyannis Port was then anc
Is now a quiet salt watering
hole for the really rich Of