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Councillor John J. McNamara bolted the City Council independents' ranks this week to keep fellow-councilman Edward J. Sullivan from becoming Cambridge's new mayor. The Cambridge Civic Association, meanwhile, abstained from voting and let the independent majority bring the newly-elected council's first meeting to an impasse...
Reliable sources predicted that the CCA will not endorse its arch foe Sullivan, and that McNamara--a strong supporter of the urban renewal program--is most likely to receive CCA support. Present misunderstanding between him and Curry can easily be reconciled the source added...
Independents John Lynch and Thomas McNamara agreed that the mayor will be an independent, but Lynch asserted that, whatever the independents decide, a subsequent offer of four CCA votes might swing the election. "It's dog eat dog," said Lynch, "everyone wants the job and it's going to be real rough to settle on one of the pack...
...candidates who gained seats on the Council are Edward A. Crane, Joseph J. DeGuglielmo '29, Mrs. Pearl Wise, and Hyman Pill. Independent members elected were Edward J. Sullivan, John D. Lynch, Thomas N. McNamara, Alfred Velluci, and Charles A. Watson...
...keep in touch, McNamara spends a third of his time traveling, but he is no slave to the job, which pays well over $100,000. At Chicago he works an 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. day, spends his evenings as often as possible with a can of beer in front of a television set. Says he: "You can't try to do it all yourself. You've got to get a laugh out of life...