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THREE years ago the Cambridge City Council used to meet in the afternoon and then adjourn to Igo's restaurant for cocktails and a leisurely dinner of lobster or steak. The city picked up the tab, of course. But it is unlikely now that the nine councillors could refrain from making political accusations over such dinners. The Council meets now in the evening and the sessions are long. Driveway permits and requests to put up signs on stores no longer have priority. Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency...
Last week- for one evening- city officials made a concerted effort to forget issues and recapture the spirit of the Igo dinners. On Wednesday, the City Council and its guest's dined at the Hotel Sonesta in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the City of Cambridge...
True to the Igo tradition, we all started in on the steak and champagne. By the end of the dinner I had downed two ice cream parfaits, and George Croft, the reporter from the Globe, had managed to slip three bottles of champagne into a doggy...
...must confess to missing Crane's explanation of his tin can lid necklace but I felt I had an excuse. The 125th centennial dinner was my only chance to relive the myth of former CRIMSON city editors who used to write their council stories drunk after a night at Igo's. Next week it would be back to the issues...
...shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians since 1955-but igo have already been released, and only 17 are rated as likely prospects. College authorities estimate that, of the students who sign baseball contracts, 75% never go on to get their college degrees. "It's the damned scouts' fault,'' says Bibb. "They paint a rosy picture...