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...broad-shouldered, handsome, Charles P. Taft has a public-service record that shines by its own light. He was a leader in the movement that brought the council-manager form of government to Cincinnati, and kept it operating efficiently. For 10 years, he served as a city councilman...
...Angeles thinks of itself as an art-loving town. Its city council annually puts up the money for a show of works by local painters and sculptors. But last week a councilman named Harold Harby took a look at what he was paying for, and turned into a frothing critic...
This week the fight still raged. Promised Harby: "I'm going to vote no more funds to the city art department as long as they put out this kind of stinkweed stuff." Through it all, only one councilman declined the critic's chair. Said Ed Roybal: "I don't think we should sit as art critics. Deciding what is good art should be left to men who know what they're doing...
Last week the town meeting was held at Jack Junior High School on Munjoy Hill, an old, rundown, Irish-leavened working-class district. The Hill's toothless, white-haired 84-year-old Councilman Billy O'Brion afforded the meeting some rare advertising. "That section," he cried, "is well taken care of by yours truly. There are just a few windbags up there who want to explode. All these town meetings are a frame-up." After calling Portland's City Manager Lyman Moore and the rest of the council "a bunch of crooks," O'Brion announced that...
Sculptor Cousino had done his carving in Italy, and brought the statue to Biarritz under heavy wraps. When the town was all set for the gala unveiling, a municipal councilman peeped under the wrappings and saw a horrifying sight: a bleak marble pyramid capped with the head of an agonizing, sphinxlike woman...