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...expert in classifying insects, burly, Hoboken-born Alfred Charles Kinsey had 150,000 specimens available for studying a single species of wasp. As professor of zoology at Indiana University, he found no similar bank of scientific data to help answer his students' questions about the sexual behavior of human beings; the most detailed study of sex histories covered only 300 individuals. Nine years ago Kinsey, doctor of science (Harvard) and author of half a dozen textbooks (e.g., New Introduction to Biology) set out to even the scientific score...
...meant it. From Jersey City he controlled governors, judges, U.S. Senators. But the cost of Hague came high. As the taxes rose, people and industries moved away. After 1940, Hague's machine became less & less effective at the polls, lost most of its state patronage. Last month, in Hoboken, a Hague henchman, Mayor Bernard McFeely, was defeated for re-election (TIME, May 26). Frank Hague could read the portents...
Beaten, McFeely finally managed to give Hoboken a laugh. Said he: "It is the will of the people...
...last year the state of New Jersey slipped him a disturbingly potent mickey -it put voting machines into Hoboken. The effect was electrifying. Some of McFeely's cops, angry at having been directed to waive their overtime pay during World War II, campaigned for a civil service referendum. It passed. After that, Hoboken's long-suffering citizens began to think of throwing off their shackles...
Last week, they did it. After 22 years in power, the roof finally fell in on McFeely. Hoboken's jubilant voters swept the 64-year-old boss and all his henchmen out of office. As the returns came in, they cheered, waved torchlights and paraded in the streets. Three of the new city commissioners were Italians, one was an Irish cop whom McFeely had persecuted, and one was a C.I.O. union leader. An Italian, Fred M. DeSapio, became mayor...