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...poll watchers, women wearing green and white dresses with the words "Louise Day Hicks" embroidered on the bodice, phoned in returns from the city's 275 voting stations, the cockiness at the Boston City Club, a garish stucco Park Square "nitespot," grew stronger and more comfortable. Some 400 people--holders of second-rank civil service offices, boisterous lady lawyers ("when Lawheeze is in, I think I'll ask her if I can be Police Commissioner"), and small-time real estate men--danced jigs, bought drinks, and ate too-sweet brownies. It was their night. Mrs. Hicks came in first...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: 'Every Little Breeze' | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

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