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...election night, Martha Mitchell called Hanrahan to gush, "I'm a Republican, but you're my kind of Democrat." Not much later, Mayor Daley also phoned his congratulations. "Politics is no different than sports," the mayor philosophized. "You win 'em and you lose 'em." Having defied the machine and won, Hanrahan returns to the fold with much more power than he had before he was kicked out. Unless he is convicted on criminal charges, he seems likely to beat his Republican opponent in the general election. He is, in fact, in a strong position to succeed...
Though a tenuous peace within the family still prevails, the gangs have become increasingly aggressive in their demands for change. Says Ted Gross, head of the city's youth services agency: "The thing is, you could b.s. the gangs of the '50s. Take 'em to a movie, give 'em a basketball, put 'em on a bus for the beach. But these kids today are not the 13-to 18-year-old punks of 15 years ago. They've been around. Now they're in their mid-20s and some even in their...
...slip into their recalcitrant quarry's headquarters and surprise him. But when they got inside, one of them was elbowed in the stomach, and an ominous-looking man said to his boss, "If they gave that paper to me, I'd just put a bullet in em." The attorneys barely managed to talk their...
...looked at 'em an' 'e said I weren't goin'ter be but sixty-four...so I can't go, Lady Dyson," she said...
...Harlem, Winchell quit school when he was 13 to tour the vaudeville circuit with Gus Edwards' revue. Several years later, as a touring hoofer, he began composing a chatty backstage newsletter featuring items about whose mother was recovering from the grippe and such quips as "You tell 'em, Ouija, I'm bored...