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...churches on the campus? Every one of the 47 remaining London churches designed by Wren was damaged or destroyed during World War II. Over the years, 37 of them have been restored; one of the few considered for eventual demolition was St. Mary Aldermanbury, probably named after the ancient alderman's court that once stood near by, and rebuilt by Wren after the Great Fire of 1666. Although the roof and furnishings were destroyed in the blitz, the walls, interior columns, some doorways and a handsomely garlanded east window remain...
Iannello has at least one distinguished predecessor. In 1940 the late James M. Curley ran for alderman and won while serving a term in the Charles St. Jail. Curley almost pulled it off a second time in 1949 when he was defeated in the mayoralty race after serving time for mail fraud. This political heritage is not lost on Iannello, who announced with deep emotion after his nomination: "Curley was my second father. I only wish I could fill his shoes, even one shoe...
Although his father was a onetime Chicago alderman. Illinois Democrat Otto Kerner, 53, never really developed much stomach for rough-and-tumble politics. "I've never been a ward leader or a county leader, and I'm not interested." he says. Elected Governor in 1960 on his record as a Cook County judge. Kerner began putting off state problems by appointing committees to study them. This summer his procrastination has come home to plague him: Illinois is in the worst fiscal mess since the Depression...
Staebler, 56, still blushes at the memory of his only other foray as a political candidate. In 1934, he ran for alderman in Ann Arbor on the Socialist ticket-and was routed. "I took socialism seriously for a couple of years during the bottom of the Depression," says Staebler, who is a millionaire on the strength of family interests in lumber and coal and his own ventures into real estate. "I have since discovered it was a mistake...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...