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Expecting the best of everything, prospective tenants flocked to sign three-year leases at fancy rents ($140-$75O a month) while W.S.V. was little more than a big hole in the ground-dug with the aid of $10 million in federal and municipal slum-clearance funds.
Hopsickles. In Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Vendor Lyle Smith was fined $100 and banished from the town by Municipal Judge Edward O'Mahoney for selling beer from his Good Humor truck.
Died. Keyes Winter, 81, boyhood Indianapolis neighbor of Booth Tarkington and model for Penrod, who became a Manhattan lawyer and for 19 years a judge of New York City's municipal court; of a heart attack; in Syosset, N.Y.
Grass-Roots Campaign. In Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia, the campaign slogan of Undertaker Con Oelofson, a candidate for municipal office, is: "The last man to let you down."
Abell was willing to catalogue municipal flaws ("Anybody in want of a dead pig can find one in Calvert Street"), but he largely ignored politicians as low types ranking somewhat beneath Baltimore's criminal element.