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Died. Arthur John Daley, 69, long-tune sports columnist for the New York Times; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Daley joined the Times sports staff in 1926 as a general reporter. A lanky, insatiable baseball fan with an easy, humorous style, Daley in 1956 became the second sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize...
...detective in 1956. He soon became the Mob's bag man in the police department, paying off detectives to insure freedom of operation. He was finally compelled to quit the force in 1960, when he and another detective were discovered wiretapping the offices of Mayor Richard Daley's Commissioner of Investigations to secure possibly damaging information that might be used against the Mayor in a political campaign...
...assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin and Party Leader Brezhnev, as well as Chicago's Mayor Daley, Senator William Fulbright and Sir Julian Huxley. Turning up at a reception given by the mayor of Cleveland, Eaton was optimistic about the energy crisis. "We will harness the sun and the power of the tides," he predicted. "We'll not let the world stand still because...
Equally important, Hanrahan so angered black Chicagoans--most of whom had always voted straight Democratic--that they split their tickets last year. The Daley machine depends on unthinking voters who pull the lever for the straight ticket; Hanrahan taught the voters to think. Few acts could hurt Mayor Daley more...
...Black Panther raid may have begun the dismantling of the Daley machine. Michael J. Arlen largely ignores the complex political consequences of the case in his little book on Hanrahan's trial. But An American Verdict is a very effective novelistic piece of reporting in which the trial becomes a symbol of the modern American city...