A week ago, HTBS’s special correspondent in France, Hélène Rémond, very kindly sent me a copy of the French magazine Sport & Style, the December issue. It just arrived and after I eagerly flipped through the pages I found the article, “Un Roman Américain” [An American Story] by Paul Miquel, (pp. 100-105). The article is about Jack Kelly, Sr., and Jack Kelly Jr., or “Kell” as he was also known. Miquel, who is basing his article on Daniel Boyne’s book Kelly: A Father, A Son, an American Quest, which was published in America in 2008. Miquel draws parallels between the Kelly family and another “immigrant” family from Ireland, the Kennedys, calling the Kellys “des ‘Kennedy du sport US’ “. Boyne, who is briefly interviewed in the article, agrees that there were some similarities between the two families, although, of course Jack Kelly Sr.’s political career was only on a local level in Philadelphia. So all you readers living in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, or in a country where you will be able to get hold of the December issue of this beautiful magazine, Sport & Style, run and get your copy right away!
My warm thanks to Hélene for sending me a copy of the magazine and an English translation, which made it easier to read the article as my French is terribly ‘rusty’.
Hear The Boat Sing 
Hélene writes in an e-mail that the Sport & Style magazine is a quarterly supplement with the Equipe newspaper (500,000 copies). The above issue was sold on December 7th, only, and it will not be available to purchase after this date. I am sorry to have misled you all… Who knows, it might be available to read electronically at a later date?
Here is a link for the online version : http://www.sportetstyle.fr/magazine/repor/SS-R-kelly-03012011
The publication date is December 3rd, even though it was available on Tuesday 7th at the newspaper shop 😉