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After a record 15 years as mayor of Los Angeles, long-winded, doggedly industrious Fletcher Bowron, who presided in the last decade over one of the most astounding episodes of municipal expansion in U.S. history, was finally beaten for office. His successor: Oregon-born G.O.P. Congressman Norris Poulson, a bespectacled, 57-year-old accountant who got into California politics as a state legislator in 1938, and served four terms in Congress before running for mayor. Against Poulson, an honest but undistinguished politico, Bowron was deprived of a campaign weapon which had served him well in the past: predicting direly that...
...Fletcher Hodges took two firsts and two seconds to lead the Wigg team to victory in the track meet. Paul Pawlowski's mound work and the hitting of Bill Laimbeer gave Wigg West a double-header and the league softball championship. Wigglesworth West also won rowing...
...Statement was signed by Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, George Sarton, professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, and Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of Pastoral Theology and Christian Ethics...
...Blake, Braintree, Mass.; Norman Bruck, Newark, N. D.; Edward P. Carter, Manchester, N. H.; Marian A. Cheek, Weston, Mass.; Monroe D. Dowling, Jr., New York City; Joseph D. French, Newton, Mass.; Thomas S. Gates 3d, Devon, Pa.; James A. C. Gerry, Spartanburg, S. C.; Norman E. Hartness. Tulsa, Okla.; Fletcher Hodges 3d., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert E. Morrison, Newton, Mass.; John C. Perkins, Hampton, N. H.; Donald G. Richards, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Paul S. Rosenthal, Dorchester, Mass.; George W. Smith Jr., Tiptonville, Tenn.; Kilby P. Smith, Scituate, Mass...
Last week, in a heavy turnout, Norris Poulson polled more votes (44%) than any of the other candidates, including Bowron (35%). Betting was heavy that changing Los Angeles would change mayors in the runoff next month, unless Fletcher Bowron, now 65, changes his tactics first...