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Cambridge provided more than its usual fare of interest for the undergraduate, and Councilman-Mayor Edward J. Sullivan provided much of it. He urged that local children be supplied with reindeer in their parks at Christmas, and when elected mayor, suggested that the University co-operate with the city...
...switching mental energy from office problems to equally absorbing outside diversions. "It's a question of substituting one set of problems for another," says Dr. Paul A. Krueger, development director for a St. Louis chemical company, who sloughs off business worries after hours as a city councilman in suburban Ferguson, Mo. More and more businessmen are finding painting an outlet for nervous energy. Eight Manhattan executives play in their own dance band. Across the U.S., businessmen's pastimes range from astronomy to zither playing, but they serve their purpose only when they consistently keep the mind away from...
...mayor and eight Councilmen--not nine potential mayors as at present. The delays and recurring political deals would vanish, and the mayoralty would cease to be a political plum, plucked in back rooms of the Hotel Commander. The qualifications for a mayor, after all, differ from those for a councilman; the separate elections would give the voters the chance to put the right man in the right office, and the city would not be forced to depend so much on shifting intra-Council loyalties. But, most important, it would give the city a mayor when it needs...
Councillor John J. McNamara bolted the City Council independents' ranks this week to keep fellow-councilman Edward J. Sullivan from becoming Cambridge's new mayor. The Cambridge Civic Association, meanwhile, abstained from voting and let the independent majority bring the newly-elected council's first meeting to an impasse...
...reelected councilman said he had not recruited the University vote and that "only 20 out of 1000 Harvard ballots were...