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...last Monday, and a weary Cambridge council was wading through its 17th hour of hearings on the dismissal of city manager John J. Curry '19. Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, the four-time mayor and Curry's fiercest defender, rose from his seat to speak. He wanted it understood, he said, that this speech was no "eleventh hour" filibuster or delay. He had contemplated making charges, he said, during the entire controversy...
...then Crane, who in both bulk and height is a truly imposing man, lumbered out into the middle of the Council chamber and launched into one of those bitter, vindictive monologues that have been so characteristic of this dispute. He attacked a man named Russell Smith, who, the ex-mayor claimed, had been personally plotting the removal of Curry for five years...
Smith is the executive director of the Citizens' Advisory Committee, a privately financed agency which advises the City on urban renewal matters. It was from this position, Crane claimed, that Smith--"a professional snooper"--had been "peddling around information to undermine a good man and a good administration. . . This fellow's been going round town souring people," Crane bellowed to a silent and stunned audience...
Standing in the middle of the council floor, the ex-mayor often to let the weight of his words sink in He told of alleged meetings that Smith had had and how he, Crane, had received information of those meetings. Smith "didn't know that as soon as the meeting was over, someone went out and called Crane." It was the old story of political friends, who in a time of political fighting, become one's spies. And as he lambasted, Crane also lectured. Referring to his enemies, he sneeringly scolded: "These boys and rookies . . . The most important thing...
...since 1952, he was bluntly told that his services were no longer needed and that if he didn't want to resign politely, there were five votes to push him out. Curry felt rightly that he deserved better treatment and, with the backing of four-time mayor Edward A. Crane '35 who had worked closely with the manager, he decided to fight...