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...corruption as Boston or New York, he has maintained a pristine record of personal honesty. Yet, like any other expert monarch, he has always known where and how to tolerate corruption within his realm. The son of a sheet-metal worker, Daley grew up in the gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor...
Astonished by the break in his usual four-letter rhetoric, she asked: "Who wrote that?" "I did," confessed Mitchum. "When I was 15. I was Bridgeport's answer to Nathalia Crane."* For once he was not swaggering. He once wrote an oratorio for a Jewish-refugee-benefit show produced and directed by Orson Welles. He wrote a short story, Thunder Road, and got it turned into a film co-starring his son Jim. He also composed two original songs for the picture...
Spinster's Delight. By comparison with Los Angeles' record, the number of such placements across the U.S. is still small: there has been only one in Bridgeport, Conn., one in San Francisco, one in Washington, D.C., four in Minneapolis. New York City has none yet, but expects to place its first one by Christmas. One reason that so few singles have been tapped is that in screening unmarried applicants, agencies are especially cautious, weeding out anybody they suspect of wanting the child just as a cure for loneliness. In addition to the usual demands of reasonable income, steady...
...businessmen switch jobs as drastically as Austin R. Zender, 63, who describes himself as "a metal man by profession and a candy man by design." Ending a long and successful career as president of Bridgeport Brass Co. and later as head of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. when the two merged, Zender postponed retirement to become head of a confectionary company on whose board he had sat since 1954. Under his aggressive leadership, Peter Paul Inc. has taken over a position among the leaders of the nation's $1.4 billion candy business...
...them only add up to the equivalent of two real men." About all that they have in common, except Snow White of course, is the curious fact that each was born in a national park. Their leader, Bill, is in a slow decline, largely because he went to Bridgeport, Conn., to deliver a powerful statement, but Bridgeport wouldn't listen. Anyway, he is tired of Snow White now, and can't bear to be touched...