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Until he ran for Councilman, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, he had been only a sideline politico. His campaign amazed Manhattan politicians. With no machine support, he ran third among six Councilmen elected in New York City. Helpfully, he mailed 200,000 sample ballots to voters, showing how to mark the complicated proportional representation ballot. In Harlem, which gave him some 50,000 No. 1 votes, there were fewer spoiled ballots than anywhere else in the city...
...large, there is little opportunity or reason for mudslinging. A number of prominent and ex-prominent local men have filed nomination papers with the election commission, on the chance that their old-time reputation and contacts will carry them through. Familiar names include Mickey "the Dudo" Sullivan, present councilman and colorful character who has often figured in the news in connection with his anti-Communist, anti-Lampoon, anti-Harvard outbursts...
...entitled to exercise, night or day, that she was no more dangerous than the average dog. But by last week most of Holmfirth had decided that, if Wilfred had Fenella, they would take chocolate. The Urban Council had put the matter in the hands of its lawyer. Said one councilman: "I understand this tiger is going to have young in the spring. Then we'll have a whole street full of tigers...
Spartanburg's festival has no rich backers, no imported stars. In last week's Requiem the tenor soloist was an insurance agent, the baritone a city councilman who is in the sand business. A music-store clerk was the rollicking gangster hero of the 18th-Century low-lives in the Beggar's Opera; his moll was Ruth Ives, Converse voice teacher and operatic production manager...
...have the Lampoon building but at least I have their Ibis," proudly announced "Mickey" Sullivan, formerely councilman from Cambridge's ninth ward, as he met the Ibis, the 'Poonsters now famous bird, yesterday afternoon...