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...citizens of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the Wilkes-Barre Lions Club last week honored Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood as their "Citizen of the Year." Not mentioned, of course, during the long evening of affectionate oratory at the Gus Genetti Hotel ballroom was the uncomfortable fact that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia whose dismissal by the Carter Administration created a national controversy, predicted that Flood...
...named in honor of a theatrically flamboyant Representative who struts around Congress like a peacock. He slicks down his hair with stickum, sports a villainous-looking waxed mustache and favors wildly eccentric clothes-velveteen suits, ruffled shirts, patent-leather shoes and satin-lined capes. But despite his outlandish appearance, Dapper Dan Flood, 74, has amassed immense power in his 30 years on Capitol Hill. As a member of the so-called College of Cardinals-the 13 Appropriation subcommittee chairmen -he can influence a large share of the federal budget and direct as much as reason permits to his constituents...
This week, however, Dapper Dan's colleagues on the House ethics committee will begin a formal investigation into charges that he has been feathering his own nest as well as his district. Committee staffers and the Justice Department are scrutinizing Flood's activities in these areas...
...hacks and demagogues have survived the election; Councilors Albert "Dapper" O'Neil and Frederick C. Langone did retain their seats. But the three losers, Councilors Louise Day Hicks and John Kerrigan and School Committee member Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, each represented a special facet of Boston's malevolent underside. Whether Hicks and Palladino gain the hundred odd votes they need to win in a recount remains irrelevant because, compared to previous elections, this year's results are a clear repudiation of the trinity that stood for patronage and prejudice...
...clock of a sleepy August morning at Dartmouth. The central green, scene of continuous softball games throughout the day, is still quiet. But in 122 Silsby Hall, a short, wiry professor -with a dapper little mustache and the florid gestures of a born talker-is holding forth with enthusiasm. "I remember how frightened I was when I was first given access to Henry James' papers," he says. "They were in a basement room in Harvard's Widener Library-four tables piled high with boxes, each box containing 250 to 500 letters, plus trunks full of notebooks that...