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...obvious plonker," confesses the hero of All Neat in Black Stockings. "You know, someone who shares his crumpet with his mates." Indeed, Ginger (Victor Henry) and his best mate Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) have a smooth little system for sharing the wealth. They bring the birds back to their adjoining digs, dim the lights, then trade rooms and partners. It's not as cushy as the setup in Two Gentlemen Sharing, but it gets the job done. At least, until Ginger meets Jill, "the special one" (Susan George). "It's been over three weeks and she's still...
...about the same mean level it was in the U.S. ten years ago. The young clergy are far less tempted by politics than their elders-or by clanking displays of power. "They should put the hierarchy and the politicians on one side" one of them told Paul O'Dwyer recently, "and everyone else on the other...
...Baldwin, L.I., are right across the street from the Lowenstein storefront, but the people inside don't even look the same. Inside Lowenstein's storefront, phones are ringing, people are shouting, women are serving coffee. High school kids are running out to polling places to distribute Lowenstein-O'Dwyer literature. Among the campaign posters on the walls are charts and maps of the district...
Despite Hubert Humphrey's victory, Democratic Senate candidate Paul O'Dwyer was swamped by veteran Sen. Jacob K. Javits. O'Dwyer, who was nominated as a result of the large McCarthy vote in the primary, did not have the support of the regular Democratic machine and was never given much of a chance against the popular Javits. The New York House delegation remained largely the same but several races provided interest. In New York City Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, a Democrat, became the first Negro woman ever elected to Congress when she defeated James Farmer, former head of Core. Allard...
...taking any support from Javits can be a difficult chore, as O'Dwyer is learning. O'Dwyer is a veteran defender of civil rights cases, which he often took for little or no fee; he hopes to cut deeply into his opponent's strength among Negroes. His involvement in gunrunning to embattled Israeli freedom fighters in 1948 also gives him the hope of cracking Javits' near monopoly on; New York's more than 1.7 million Jewish votes. But O'Dwyer remains an all but certain loser to one of the best vote getters...