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Whether right or wrong the theory did not move the Democrats to tip their own hand. Boss Ed Kelly was still keeping mum, hoping for a draft call. If he did not run himself, Ed's choice would probably be Gael Sullivan, his onetime administrative assistant and now second assistant postmaster general. The choice of his underlings (who did not cotton to absentee Sullivan): big, smart State's Attorney William J. Tuohy...
...befuddlement. The Party's strategists picked themselves off the floor and felt themselves gingerly. It was too early to tell where the fractures might show up in the congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains and minor dislocations...
...kilts. Defense Headquarters cited authorities. The cut of a woman's kilt, it pointed out, must "for anatomical reasons" be different from a man's; it must be longer. The above-the-knee kilt for women was "a travesty of the male attire ... an affront to the Gael." The C.W.A.C. pipers would have to wear regulation drab khaki uniforms-at least until a more decorous, calf-length kilt could be designed...
Canadian Scots protested, tradition or no. They pointed out that the Vancouver Glengarry Girls Pipe Band wears knee-revealing kilts and that no Gael feels affronted. Said Robert Fiddes, president of the Vancouver St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society: "A kilt improves the look of any lassie." A regulation kilt, he declared, should fall just above the knee, not below. A true Scot is proud to show his knees, no matter how bony, and a lassie should be allowed to do the same-"she certainly has more to show...
...Gael. In Seattle, Judge John Neergaard suspended sentence on all Irish drunks appearing before him as an aftermath of St. Patrick's Day, for good measure included in his amnesty a Mexican named Francisco Gallagher...