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...with only ten candidates running for six spots, the incumbents are campaigning hard for number one votes, and the challengers have a good chance of ousting someone and breaking the three-three liberal-conservative deadlock. The most vulnerable incumbent seems to be independent James F. Fitzgerald, an arch-conservative who has been on the School Committee for most of the last 46 years...
...issues in this election basically center around the past performances of the various candidates and some vague promises for the future. Cutting expenditures and saving tax dollars is a favorite concern of most of the Independents. Incumbents Fitzgerald and Donald Fantini and challengers David P. Kennedy and Nicholas R. Ragno all base their campaigns on this issue--citing, in particular, high administrative salaries with further raises proposed. Falling enrollments fuel their arguments against the Convention slate, which has supported costly construction projects and designed several new administrative positions...
...Fitzgerald, Fantini and Joseph Maynard are the Independent incumbents. Maynard is campaigning on his record which is pretty much the same as the other Independent incumbents, and he will not comment further to reporters. Fantini has had six years total experience on the committee and finished second in the election two years...
Next to Malcolm Lowry, even such notorious literary flameouts as Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen Crane seem like models of mental health. During his 48 years, Lowry wrote one extraordinary novel, Under the Volcano (1947), and spent nearly every other waking hour looking for ways to destroy himself. His search for oblivion was as successful as it was arduous. Though born to a well-off British family, Lowry was penniless ^nd drunk for most of his adulthood. He did time in jail and in mental wards; he was down and out in Mexico, New York, Hollywood and British Columbia. Even...
...Night at the Opera. In 1934 Chico Marx, an inveterate bridge player, sat down at the table with one of the sharpest cards ever to hit Hollywood: Irving Thalberg, the boy wonder producer, whose career inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel "The Last Tycoon." Thalberg's gambling ability marked him as the man to revive the ailing career of the three Marx brothers (Zeppo, having gotten fed up with his role as straight man, had left the team to become an agent; when Thalberg asked if the Marxist troika expected the same salary they had received...