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...CLYDE DOYLE. M.C. Washington...
...grand Irish Mail chugging from Holyhead on the shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
...Clyde Doyle looked into his heart. He appraised himself coolly and found himself to be a man of amazing diligence. He considered his soul: although a Democrat, he harbored no ill will toward Republicans, at least those in the 18th Congressional District, Los Angeles County, California. They were his constituents. A sentence drifted into his mind and he allowed it to rub on his brain lobes for a while. It began: "Believing as I do that the destiny of our beloved Nation depends upon the participation of an informed electorate...
Dutifully the Hon. Clyde Doyle decided to inform it. His subject: the Hon. Clyde Doyle. He wrote and wrote...
...Extensions of Remarks," listing every time he had opened his mouth in Congress. He drew up an Individual Voting Record (first session and second session). He summed up: "If you have any question on any point, I will be pleased to have you communicate with me. . . ." If the Hon. Clyde Doyle struggled with his pride at the end, he conquered. The great work was signed simply: Clyde Doyle. The whole thing was printed nicely in the Congressional Record and used up six pages, from A2863 to A2869-and could thus be mailed free to all his constituents...