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...line with this pamphlet was a motion introduced by Cambridge Councilman Michael Sullivan that University authorities investigate the placards placed on House bulletin boards last week deriding the fall of the Spanish "Reds...
...City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...
...lobby while members of the dance committee questioned their credentials. One of them threatened to "punch the nose" of anyone who tried to take the wreath and canaries, last-minute substitutes for the doves of peace, upstairs to the ball room. When Sullivan showed his card as a Councilman he was told he should be ashamed of himself...
Objections were finally stilled with the arrival of Edward Kaufman, chairman of the dance committee, and James Sullivan, the Councilman's oldest son, presented the wreath from the Independents and released the three canaries from the box on the band platform
Last night's resolution by the Cambridge Council is milder than what one would expect from Councilman Don Quixote Sullivan and his Sancho Pansa Mr. Toomey. Perhaps those two windmill-tilters are tired after their great fight of last November when they saved the city from the dripping jaws of Harvard, or perhaps they read the article in the December Harvard Progressive on "The Case for Cambridge" and found therein food for thought. This essay directed at the ill-will that exists between Harvard and Cambridge, gathers a mass of facts on the matter and interprets them in a reasoned...