Word: eddic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he is now general manager. He first ran for office in November 1949, at the age of 28, following his father's death the preceding February. Last year makes his third election to the council. "I'm the first union man ever to be mayor of this city," Eddic happily noted, "and I'm going to run this city so they'll cry for more." He is also the youngest mayor in Cambridge history...
...tear down their Hearst-bequeathed edifice and install Benny Jacobson in its stead. He's a helluva lot funnier than the Lampoon anyway," he said. Along more "serious" lines, the Dude introduced a bill into the council to strike the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" from all Cambridge library books. Eddic proudly tells anyone who will listen how his father predicted the "notorious spread of Marxism in the University...
...Cambridge Civic Association, which opposed him for mayor, is strictly a businessman's outfit. Eddic feels it doesn't "care a hoot" for the little fellow who elects Sullivan. "They're like the local Republican party and I'm a Democrat." After being mayor less than a week, Sullivan announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor's Council. He's lost only one election in his life: running for County Clerk of Courts on the Democratic ticket in 1952, he was defeated in the GOP landslide. "But it took Ike to beat me," he beamed...