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...broom-wielding mood, San Franciscans last week swept out the 13-year regime of bald, bland, bumbling Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. Newly installed under the City Hall dome was a newcomer to politics, but an old face to San Franciscans: genial Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham...
...Bald Frank FitzGerald, candidate of organized labor and of the Negro, came up from nowhere to win Detroit's non-partisan primary right under the suntanned nose of Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr. (TIME, Oct. 18). Then the fight grew hot. FitzGerald hammered that Jeffries' campaign was "based on race and class prejudice." Jeffries jabbed at FitzGerald's inexperience in municipal affairs...
Elected Mayor of Philadelphia last week by a thumping 64,197 majority: short, swart Bernard ("Barney") Samuel, 63, self-made South Philadelphia ward heeler who rose in the Republican machine from doorbell-ringer to mayor. Rejected: sophisticated, billiard-bald Main Liner William C. Bullitt, 52, native of genteel Rittenhouse Square, pre-Munich New Deal Ambassador to the U.S.S.R..and to France...
...zero hour, Russian guns and bombers blasted German defenses. Into the gap poured Russian infantrymen and tanks, until then hidden in gullies and ravines. By the end of the second day, the forces of bald, hard-driving General Ivan Konev had opened a breach 28 miles wide, 16 miles deep, soon pushed the wedge southward at a fast pace. By this week, his army had driven some 70 miles into the bulge, was pounding on the gates of Krivoi Rog, an important rail and iron center. Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power...
Charles Austin Beard, who looks like the American bald eagle, has made historical scholarship a springboard to a life of heady and exhilarating controversy. The Republic is the latest round of the argument. It will also go a long way to end the notion that, as a historian, Charles A. Beard is an economic determinist and nothing else...