Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event: Britons had not seen bananas in five years. When the good ship Tilapa tied up at Bristol last week, the Lord Mayor himself, driving through heavy fog, went down to welcome her. So did thousands of curious kids...
...Brunoy's drab Town Hall came the bride, her pregnant body wrapped in a worn rabbit fur coat, and the bridegroom, his shoulders hunched in a ragged overcoat. A disapproving, contemptuous crowd stood in the wedding hall, the long room outside the Mayor's office. Hate was the chief witness...
...Mayor's door opened. The bridegroom's face turned ashen, the bride's fists clenched. M. Doinel was wearing his baggy Buchenwald uniform, black-&-white stripes with a red triangle numbered 78633. Slowly he read the service. . . . "Will you take for your husband. . . . Will you take for your wife. . . ." Slowly they answered...
...done. The Mayor handed the newlyweds their marriage certificate. "You recognize this striped suit. . . ." he said in benediction. "It is against my will . . . that I performed this ceremony. You have the wishes of a political deportee...
...years ago the Courier defeated a Lincoln mayor when he disagreed with it on parking meters. Now it is thumping away at an airport for feeder lines, a war memorial. It still puts out a lively, fortnightly tabloid, with pinups, for local boys overseas. Executive Editor Ken Goodrich prods news out of 19 rural correspondents, runs locally-written guest editorials. His five full-time staffers write on copy paper of different colors, so that he can tell at a glance who wrote what...