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Honey Fitz, brimming with pride, provided his grandson with a phalanx of seasoned ward heelers, but Jack preferred the rank-amateur assistance of his college friends, wartime shipmates and Ivy Leaguers who flocked to help out in the campaign. The old pols were disgusted, until Jack and his youthful supporters won handsomely, with 42% of the vote. On the night of the primary victory, old Honey Fitz, 83, crawled up on a table, danced a stiff-legged Irish jig and sang Sweet Adeline. It was the swan song for the old, colorful and rascally breed of Boston Irish politics...
...cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke off to charge police guarding the Diet building, the sortie was led by a phalanx of screaming, pole-waving newsmen...
...reconsider his suggestion for a postponement of the summit conference until after the national elections in this country." All this was both good patriotism and good politics. But before the week was out, even before the President returned to Washington (to be greeted by Mister Sam and a phalanx of Democratic loyalists among the 2,000 airport welcomers), politics became its more natural self...
...looks like a 6,500,000 year, including imports. But if you figure that part of January's total is a carryover from November and December, it looks like a 6,100,000-car year, not too different from 1959." Chevrolet Boss Ed Cole, setting out with a phalanx of salesmen on a two-week tour to stir up dealers, quickly made his choice. Said he: "1960 promises to be one of the best selling years in history, and a record breaker for Chevrolet. We expect Chevrolet dealers to sell about 1,500,000 conventional passenger cars...
...have to walk to a central table to make a phone call, but simply by flipping a switch on his desk, the assignment editor can put himself in instant radio touch with staffers manning the fleet of editorial cars or flying off to a story by chartered plane. The phalanx of city-room desks is liberally speckled with grey heads, most of them belonging to veterans of the staff-owned paper who cannot bear to part with their Star stock holdings, which must be cashed in when they leave the paper: the Star's police reporter William Moorhead...