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Died. James B. ("The Silver Fox") Bowler, 82, oldtime Chicago West Side ward boss, alderman (except for two brief intervals) from 1906 to 1953, and U.S. Congressman from 1953; in Chicago. Elder statesman of the city's Democratic machine, Bowler shared power all through the boodle days with "Hinky Dink" Kenna and his close friend "Bathhouse John" Coughlin, whose insurance business Bowler took over when Coughlin died (1938), once maintained his own rifle-equipped "army" to hold out against gangster attempts to invade and take over his ward...
...Alderman Brigg and the new minister (suspect because he comes from the frivolous South) fight it out on the hard Calvinist line. The new man wavers on "those harsh and narrow dogmas," and the feud with Brigg is on. In the end the minister lies mysteriously dead, the peace of families has been ruined, the chapel is tern down, and a new congregation-with a softer creed has risen-and only then the reader notices that he has seen a picture of the inner life of nonconformist 19th century England...
...17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity director in 1943, four times handily won election as alderman from his home ward before he took over city hall...
...beating out a white contender, was re-elected to the board of education, although the white-supremacy camp (which argued that Clement won the seat by accident the first time) tirelessly reminded voters that he is a Negro. Insurance Dealer Theodore Morton Alexander, 48, first Negro to run for alderman in Atlanta since 1871, finished a close second with two white candidates against him, stands an outside chance of winning a top-two runoff next week. After what he considered a moral victory, Alexander paid high tribute to Bill Hartsfield: "As I listened to the returns, my heart was beating...
Under close questioning by Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, Brewster admitted that on occasion he had helped himself to union funds to pay for personal expenses, specifically for the transportation, and "possibly" for the lodging, of a jockey and a trainer employed by his stables (Brewster's colt, Alderman, won Hollywood Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference...