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...Dapper's path is easy to follow. As a ten-year campaign stalwart for former Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody, O'Neil was rewarded in the mid-'60's with a position on the three-member Boston Liquor Licensing Commission. Later, he became its chairman. During his tenure on the commission, O'Neil got into a feud with a newspaper editor whose paper had slandered Dapper on several occasions. The editor was allegedly having an affair with a Chinese woman, and the politician drove around the paper's building shouting through a megaphone "...likes Chinese food, he eats Chinese every chance...
...style of an Elliot Ness, Dapper often led liquor board raids on uncooperative bars and once raided a B.U. dorm for cohabitation. "If I had a kid going to college they'd live at home. Send 'em to a college dorm and they come back a fag or a dyke," he said last week...
...evening Dapper hit a car driven by a black man who had stopped at a red light in Roxbury. According to the widely accepted account of the incident, O'Neil got out of his car, enraged, pulled his ever present gun out of his belt and placed it at the man's head. Later he claimed it was only a pen. Boston Mayor Kevin White--whom O'Neil describes now as "...a mental case...He makes Jesse James look like an amateur"--once introduced the councilor to an audience as "The man who once again proved that...
...comic stories about Dapper are endless, but they tend to obscure the vicious side of the affable councilor. A Wallace supporter since 1968 (years before busing had won the Alabaman many Massachusetts votes), one political insider said O'Neil was with him "every time Wallace was in Boston." In the collection of country western singers and intellectual lightweights that formed the Wallace campaign, Dapper was only good for handshaking pictures for The South Boston Tribune. His advice was never solicited and his responsibilities were nonexistent...
MASSACHUSETTS STATE representative Barney Frank '61 said last week Dapper "is not an amiable joke.... There is nothing positive about him." O'Neil blasts other public figures with abandon. He claims Reverend Ralph Abernathy is a "perverted degenerate" with a preference for 15-year-old girls, black activist Bayard Rustin a "homosexual fag," and that the two sons of Tom Atkins, leader of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, were arrested for pursesnatching. The lawyer to whom he said he had shown a transcript of Abernathy's and Rustin's sex trials said last week she has no recollection...