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BOSTON. In the beginning, Boston's mayoralty race shaped up as a political donnybrook between archenemies Kevin White and Louise Day Hicks, with Mrs. Hicks, who to many has been the Bella Abzug of the beer and backlash set, expected to be doing most of the punching. In 1967, after having served seven years as Massachusetts secretary of state, White handily defeated Mrs. Hicks for the mayoralty. In 1970, Mrs. Hicks ran for and won ex-Speaker John McCormack's old seat in Congress. By last year White's popularity had slipped so badly that when...
Died. Samuel Spewack, 72, co-author with his wife Bella of dozens of stage and screen comedies since the 1920s; in Manhattan. The two met as young newspaper reporters in New York. "Sam really fell in love with my writing," Bella later quipped. Masters of the formula farce, the Spewacks conquered Broadway with such hits as Boy Meets Girl (1935) and My Three Angels (1953). They also wrote the text for Cole Porter's classic musical, Kiss Me, Kate...
...More powerful than Abbie Hoffman! Faster on the guff than Bella Abzug! Able to leap Baron Munchausen in a single bound! It's Supercop Jack Muller, the Chicago letter-of-the-law man who for 25 years has been causing pain and embarrassment to that city's politicians, smug elite and privileged hoodlums...
More power to you, Bella Abzug...
...fishwife Solon, Bella Abzug, is not a figure of fun but a frightening symbol of what political standards in this country have declined to. This rude, raucous and profane woman debases the democratic process and brings home to us the truth that what is popular is not necessarily palatable...