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...would now be boss in Chicago? The machine professionals wanted a benign-looking, dependable party wheelhorse named Joe Gill. Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, chief federal patronage dispenser since Scott Lucas' defeat, wanted energetic young County Clerk Richard Daley, who also had the backing of Governor Adlai Stevenson. That equivocating enigma, Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelly, wanting to get re-elected in April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed...
...House, bald, urbane Speaker Sam Rayburn called his charges to order promptly at noon in the Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...whole thing, explained a railways official later on, was undoubtedly the fault of a literal-minded desk clerk. Back in pre-nationalization days, he said, the hotel had a ruling forbidding women to barge in off the streets for baths. Miss Ward's case, he thought, might fairly be called "an isolated incident [but] the one thing we were sure about all along was that she would get her bath, come what...
...through A & P's headquarters is too small for John Hartford's eye. One morning his secretary found him throwing knives at a target in his office. A truck driver had sued A & P, charging he had been injured by a knife thrown by an A & P clerk. John made his tests to see if it was possible to hit a man at the distance claimed, proved it unlikely, won his case...
Family Pride. In St. Joseph, Mo., Police Clerk Patrick Nash got a telephone call from a woman who said she understood the police had taken some pictures of her recently arrested son and wondered whether she could order a dozen prints to give to relatives...