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...spot in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, which between them have 159 of the 270 electoral votes needed to pick the next President. Moving to establish itself as the party of all the people, the G.O.P. made deep inroads in the historically sacrosanct Democratic strongholds?the cities???with significant gains in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles...
...newspaper competition has all but disappeared. It survives in only 60 of the country's 5,911 cities???and in two-thirds of these the competition is token, i.e., between morning and afternoon papers...
...usual, suspects were loudly picked up and quietly released in other cities???Baltimore, Philadelphia, Scranton. As usual, Val O'Farrell, oldtime detective, masterminded the case for the Daily News (his angle: "inside job"). U. S. Trucking Corp. was quick to certify the good characters of its robbed guards, promptly sent checks to all who had suffered loss, was happy that it was fully covered by theft insurance. Turning an unprecedented lemon into lemonade, theft insurance firms bought space on financial news pages to advertise their protection service...
...three largest Connecticut cities??? Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport? elected Democratic mayors...
...loved the men of cities???New York, New Orleans, Washington. He loved to drive a Broadway omnibus. He loved to listen to the stevedores on the Louisiana levees. He also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...