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...best thing about About Paterson, Christopher Norwood's first book, is that it is a work of inspiration and commitment. Norwood, for two years a reporter for a Paterson television station, writes with a refreshing admiration for the city, and a tenacious desire to get at the spirt of Paterson...
Paterson became what Norwood calls "a Wild West outpost of industrialism." While most American cities developed and began their early growth as commercial centers, producing civic-minded merchants and opulent monuments, Paterson never found benefactors among its industrialists. It was merely a place to house the workers who ran the silk factories, and the industrialists fought every attempt to improve or beautify the town. Jacob Rogers of Rogers Locomotives declined to donate a small patch of land for the city hospital. "I don't owe anything to Paterson," he said...
...Norwood, Paterson is a symbol of the neglected American city, an entity never acknowledged or accomodated by American political institutions. Cities by and large exist at the pleasure of their state governments, which are dominated by rural interests, or more recently, by the affluent suburbs. She is correct is pointing out that American cities have always been suspect. It is in the dense cities that individualist land and property rights have been attacked by collectivist demands...
ALTHOUGH SHE IS sympathetic towards most other aspects of the city's life, Norwood takes a simplistic and negative view of Paterson's political machine. She attempts to symbolize Paterson's problems in its current political struggle between the Democratic machine and its "reform" Republican Mayor Kramer. Her narrative illustrates the incompetence and even cynicism which has marked reform politics in the big cities. The election and re-election of Paterson's reform mayor is far from the affirmation of the city's spirit that Norwood wants to portray...
State Rep. Paul L. Guzzi '64 (D-Newton) crushed Sen. John M. Quinlan (R-Norwood) in a hotly contested race for Secretary of State. Guzzi established a 2-1 lead early in the evening and with 62 per cent of the precincts reporting, he led Quinlan...