Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sherman Adams. Other New England politicians whom he warmly befriended: New Hampshire's Republican Senators Styles Bridges ("one of my very best friends") and Norris Cotton (who owns 10% of Goldfine's Lebondale Mills). Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne ("I knew him when he was mayor of Augusta"). Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo. "In picking winners." says Goldfine with a grin. "I've been very fortunate...
Landslide. In West Hollywood, Fla., voters elected a mayor, defeated on the same ballot a proposal to incorporate the town, with the result that Frank Polage is the new mayor of no place...
...battle for a Senate successor to Bill Knowland, Northern California's Congressman Clair Engle took the Democratic nomination. And G.O.P. Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who ran for the Senate after Knowland pressured him out of another term as Governor, won the Republican nomination over San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher...
...fender. The driver fled. The delighted crowd chanted for Matador Aparicio to take the driver's place, but he politely declined. Then an enthusiast leaped down from the public seats, raced to the truck cab to renew the battle. The crowd roared as it recognized Toledo's Mayor Joseé Conde Alonso. Secure in the driver's seat, the mayor circled the arena with the truck, looking for a chance to ram his enemy. The bull made faster turns and hit harder: he gored both fenders, ripped off the license plate and headlights, damaged the wheels...
...muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind of noble but dull character who is ready to give those in need the stuffed shirt off his back...