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...over we're either gonna be real happy or real sad. If we draw between 15,000 and 20,000 for both days together I think we'll break even and Lord willin' and the creak don't rise we'll have the tournament here next year,"--Dan McNamera, Executive Vice-President of the Orange Bowl Committee...
...staged a semi-pro game last Friday afternoon in the bowl and kept track of the number of slips," McNamera said. "Only four players fell on their bucket all day. You'll find that many slips on the best natural turf...
White had been quietly talking with Police Chief Charles Ingersoll of Charlotte, N.C., about the likelihood of his replacing McNamera. One day, shortly before Ingersoll was to come to Boston for talks with White, a Boston newspaper reporter was visiting White's Mount Vernon Street home for a folksy interview with Mrs. White. While there he noticed Ingersoll's name on some note-papers on White's desk. He did some checking and the story of White's "attempt" to remove McNamera made the press. Instantly dozens of people, including the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, shocked by a supposed...
...hard to say what motivated White to try to remove McNamera so early in the term--perhaps it was that same sense of the dramatic that allowed him to be photographed, during last week's cold weather, sitting by a cot in his City Hall office prepared to stay the night answering phone calls from freezing citizens. Had he waited until he had a surer grasp on his office. White probably could have devised a plan to remove McNamera. It's doubtful that he can do it now: McNamera's friends are on guard. Indeed one White insider says...
...drag photogenic cots into the Mayor's office and declare a state of emergency every time a traffic light fails to work, he'd probably have many more successes like the Welfare financing incident and very few blunders like the hasty and careless attempt to remove Commissioner McNamera...