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When he was sent to prison for mail fraud last June, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley told the judge that he had at least nine serious ailments (gall bladder disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, etc.). "You are sentencing me," he said brokenly, "to death...
Last week 73-year-old Jim Curley returned to Boston and his $20,000-a-year job (Boston had thoughtfully kept his pay going while he was in prison). President Truman had commuted his 6-to-18-month sentence at the end of five months,* one month before he would have been eligible for parole. Outwardly, the only sign of Boss Curley's ordeal was a small strip of adhesive tape under his right eye, to keep him from irritating his ingrown eyelashes. His health? "I come back ten years younger," said Jim Curley...
...after Thanksgiving, Curley went briskly back to City Hall and ousted Temporary Mayor John B. Hynes, who went gratefully back to being city clerk for life. Jim got right down to the business of spending $38,000,000 on projects which had been held up pending his return. Curley appointees had kept Hynes from spending more than was necessary...
With the stimulating announcement that the talent for the forthcoming Smoker may run from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo, the Freshman Affairs Committee is harking back to the whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only...
...election on December 15, eight of the nominees will be selected to lay plans for the festivities and to solicit talent which may run anywhere from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo...