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Philadelphia. Yaleman Richardson Dilworth, 61, World War I combat marine who helped run Republican corruption out of Philadelphia back in 1947 and started prodding a dying city back to life, won his second Democratic term by knocking off the most tireless Republican hopeful of the day: Harold Stassen. Dilworth, who had only to rest on his achievements (and the backing of all three Philadelphia newspapers), did not have to take out after Stassen; Harold, 52, did it all by himself. A disappointed presidential and gubernatorial contender in Pennsylvania, the onetime Minnesota boy-wonder Governor could not find a legitimate issue...
...Boston, John E. Powers, president of the state Senate, is favored to defeat his rival, John F. Collins, for the mayoralty Incumbent Democrat Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia, is expected to soundly defeated Harold E. Stassen, who is trying a political comeback...
...eleven years ago was a red-hot prospect for the Republican presidential nomination, got an unbrotherly, unloving cut in his campaign for mayor of Philadelphia, when the Bulletin and the Inquirer, both independent Republican newspapers, endorsed his opponent in next week's mayoralty election. Incumbent Mayor Richardson Dilworth, a Democrat...
With only a fortnight to tour the U.S., Khrushchev would have to turn down most of the invitations that began rolling in to the Soviet embassy in Washington. Mayor Richardson Dilworth invited him to Philadelphia. In Columbus, Ohio State University alumni eagerly plotted to get Khrushchev to the football stadium for the Duke game. Officials in Marshalltown, Iowa urged him to visit their town "in the heartland of America." Invitations to make speeches poured in from an assortment of clubs, ranging from the Young Republicans in New York City to Rotary in Crossett, Ark. And inevitably, an invitation...
Philadelphia's Mayor Richardson Dilworth was crying as he groped for a phrase that could crystallize an emotion. "It is a horrible thing," he sobbed finally, to 50 mourners at the lamplit coffin in a small West Philadelphia funeral home, "that this could happen in our city." The mayor's tears said it better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven...