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...would now be boss in Chicago? The machine professionals wanted a benign-looking, dependable party wheelhorse named Joe Gill. Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, chief federal patronage dispenser since Scott Lucas' defeat, wanted energetic young County Clerk Richard Daley, who also had the backing of Governor Adlai Stevenson. That equivocating enigma, Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelly, wanting to get re-elected in April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed...
...Trouble of One House, by Brendan Gill. An ironic first novel about a woman who loved other people so truly that they could not help resenting her (TIME...
...Trouble of One House, by Brendan Gill. An ironic first novel about a woman who loved other people so truly that they could not help resenting her (TIME...
...Trouble of One House, by Brendan Gill. An ironic first novel about a woman who loved other people so truly that they could not help resenting her (TIME...
...third period Lowenstein set up another score when he pitched a 20 yard pass to quarterback Gill O'Neil, who caught the ball on the Princeton 18 and went to the eight. On the fourth down the five-foot nine-inch passer hit end Paul Crowley at the extreme corner of the end zone...