Word: mavericks
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Bullfrog-dumpy little Maury Maverick was pointing out how shabby San Antonio had grown since it turned him out of the mayor's office in 1941. Maury had gone on to Washington and had headed the Smaller War Plants Corp. during the war. But San Antonio. . . . "Look at that rusty sign...
...policing was sloppy, she had floods and bad drainage. Then a polio epidemic caught her health department off balance. Citizens were getting fed up with the bumbling, fix-nothing administration of spluttery Mayor Gus Mauermann. Even Maury's old enemies began phoning him in Los Angeles and Maverick-for-Mayor stickers began to appear...
...courting calls, waddled brightly around hotel lobbies, bought himself a plot in the city cemetery, and visited refuse-clogged Alazan Creek, which had flash-flooded San Antonio time & again. Some of the old machine bosses tried to head him off. And round-faced Sheriff Owen Kilday, who had engineered Maverick's defeat in 1941, had yet to declare for anybody...
...every Newsman instantly knew, was restless Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, the maverick journalistic genius who sired the slick, expert, irritating, irreverent, gamy newspaper with the biggest circulation...
Gene Fowler (Timber Line; Good Night, Sweet Prince, etc.). who once, in his maverick days, described himself as "an American peasant," is now an independent movie producer, and lives in a four-bedroom house of "West Los Angeles baroque" which, he says, looks like a Cunard liner. He used to write Hollywood movie scripts at $2.750 a week. Before that, as managing editor of the old New York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver...