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...sooner than he had uttered a response, DeLury dipped into his coat pocket and retrieved a plastic case containing five thin cigars of his own. Out of another pocket he snatched a gold lighter emblazoned with the seal of the New York Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association which he helped found in 1935 and has headed ever since. Carefully placing the lighter on top of the cigar case. DeLury sat back in his chair to field questions about his legendary career in New York City politics...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Steering a Tight Ship in a Sinking City | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

...file an appeal. The arrest itself was indicative of the treatment Collins continued to receive, Federal Marshals, who usually serve notice and let the person settle personal affairs and surrender, came to Collin' home in New Orleans, handcuffed him and took him off without allowing him to grab his coat or a toothbrush...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: The Collins Case: Repression and the Draft | 3/24/1972 | See Source »

...brings out the same emotion as Ben Hogan skying to an 80 in the last round after shooting a third round 66 in the Masters a few years ago. Only Peabody didn't have the grace of a faded star. His over madeup wife in a shiny silver coat handed out sheets and said. "My husband's running for Vice President." Meanwhile her husband was saying to the green-eyed McGovern girl that he'd be glad to "chase your skirt anytime, honey...

Author: By Peter Southwick, | Title: Ward 10, Manchester | 3/17/1972 | See Source »

Vance Hartke, author of such-and-such Vance Hartke, champion of civil rights. Vance Hartke, friend of the veteran," and so on. The name is strange to begin with, and upon repetition it starts to sound like a call to arms: vance hartkee' The senator arrived with his chesterfield coat, one wife and three of ten kids, two of whom seemed absorbed in a 7-up. The Hartke people all wore styrofoam skimmers and balloons, but the Senator seemed annoyed when one of the nats was put on his own head...

Author: By Peter Southwick, | Title: Ward 10, Manchester | 3/17/1972 | See Source »

...wood-frame-three-story-grey-family dwelling for the candidate himself. Being famished, I made a bee-line for the goodies spread on the dining-room table. In one of the more daring moves of the New Hampshire campaign I opened the giant pocket of my trench coat and redistributed the pretzels from the affluent china to my impoverished pocket...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

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