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Despite these new elements, the votes on the underpass bills will probably be very close and their chances for success seem to depend largely upon how hard two Cambridge legislators--Rep. John J. Toomey and State Senator Francis X. McCann--continue their support of the underpasses...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Underpass Challengers Urge Whitmore to Delay | 2/10/1965 | See Source »

...HOUSE ON THE SOUND by Kathrin Perutz. 213 pages. Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Game | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...Siegfried Wichmann. (Crown; $15) is a comprehensive, pleasantly illustrated history of chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann; $7.95) is an anecdote-laden, fascinating-in-spite-of-itself account of all the major London clubs. What may well prove to be both the best-illustrated and best-written of the Kennedy memorial books is The Kennedy Years (Viking; $16.50), a massively complete compilation of photographs with equally compendious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gift Books: Twelve Drummers Drumming | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

During the last legislature, a number of anti-underpass bills were defeated. But at least three new anti-underpass bills will be filed for the forthcoming session, which begins in January. Supporters of the bills do not expect that McCann's resignations will make passage easier, however...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: McCann Leaves Three Committees After Dispute With Senate President | 12/2/1964 | See Source »

...would not say that Senator McCann's influence is the key to the problem," one said. This source cited probable opposition from Rep. John Toomey (D-Cambridge), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, as the chief hurdle to the bill's passage...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: McCann Leaves Three Committees After Dispute With Senate President | 12/2/1964 | See Source »

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