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Last week the notion proved not so fanciful at all. Dublin, which is 95% Roman Catholic, got its first Jewish mayor: Robert Briscoe, 61, a leader of Dublin's small community of 5,000 Jews. The Irish saw nothing incongruous about Alderman Briscoe's selection (which was decided by a tie-breaking draw from a black bowler). Bobby Briscoe was Dublin born and Dublin reared, had joined the I.R.A. as a mere lad, taken up arms for freedom, and worked 29 years for it with De Valera in the Dail. He had been in on some...
...Getter. In El Paso, Alderman Bob Kolliner took off after a speeding bus, haled the driver into court where Kolliner drew a $25 fine when he sheepishly admitted that he lacked the authority to exceed the speed limit himself...
Right up to election eve, his enemies spared no smear in their efforts to unseat able, 43-year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes...
These charges have been called "shameful" by Alderman Milton J. McGuire, who is Zeidler's opponent in the mayoralty election next week. But McGuire aides have sneered at Zeidler workers for asso ciating with a "nigger lover," and McGuire undoubtedly stands to benefit from the whispering campaign against Zeidler. With some bitterness the mayor links his opponent to the rumors. Says Zeidler: "The rumor is what made possible any candidacy against me. It is one of those things that is very hard to combat. If my opponent leaves any heritage to Milwaukee, whether he wins or loses, it will...
Kefauver in 1952, switched to Stevenson this year. Mourned Sullivan: "Well, Kefauver came in here and campaigned as if he were running for alderman, with all of that handshaking...