Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayor Ed Koch stood on his dignity and declined to read the funnies over the air as Fiorello La Guardia had done during a New York City newspaper strike 33 years earlier. No matter. Soupy Sales and Eartha Kitt read Doonesbury and other comic strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group...
...from Ed King (former Massport director and All-American footballer). Operating on a shoestring budget (her sevenmember staff receives just $500 a week), Ackermann must compete with the media blitzes and black-tie fund-raisers of King and the "Duke." "Massachusetts voters are very sophisticated," says the former Cambridge mayor and veteran of five years on the Cambridge School Committee and ten on the Cambridge City Council. "Often, it's those who didn't go to Harvard who are more sophisticated," she says from her Central Square headquarters...
...buttons are that do something. Certain things have been very gratifying -- opening a clinic in a housing project, keeping schools open after hours --these things make a difference in peoples' lives. Keeping peoples' heads from being broken! (she is recalling Cambridge's more radical decade, during which she was mayor and city councilwoman...
...Attorney General Francis Boucher Burch, long called "Bill," legally adopted the nickname with its suggestion of a common touch-but reverted to Francis Boucher after he withdrew from the race. Out of a simple wish to escape the paternal shadow, Graham Williams Wheeler, the son of Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Charles B. Wheeler Jr., recently had his name legally pruned back to Graham Williams...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving...