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...Last Hurrah. That old Gael Spencer Tracy gets a chance to make something out of the blarney that is built into the familiar figure of Frank Skeffington, rogue-hero of the popular 1956 bestseller. Result: a politico who is a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich...
...Boston's indestructible, scallawaggish ex-Mayor James Michael Curley, 83, who claims in tones of delighted outrage that he is the model of the indestructible, scallawaggish politico in The Last Hurrah, caused hurrahs among movie pressagents and headline writers: he filed for an injunction against the Boston showing of the novel's movie version. Court hearing has been set for this week, but chances are slim that Boston, or any other place, will be deprived of seeing the Boss's adventures as portrayed by Spencer Tracy...
...announced his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, thereby throwing the gauntlet to GOPolitician Len Hall, ex-National Committee chairman, who had announced earlier, had been hoping for a clear field for the August G.O.P. convention. Rockefeller, who turned down pleas that he run for Senator, is no professional politico, but he has built a distinguished longtime record in public service...
Assigned to command of Willaya (Zone) Three, his home region of Kabylia, Krim set about establishing politico-military structures in some 2,000 villages. Each village organization was based on a three-man cell-tax collector, recruiter and judge-and when terror proved necessary to rally the Moslems, the F.L.N. did not hesitate...
From bitter experience, all broadcasters know that a routine political speech by a routine politician has a low-low rating in listenership. What is worse, the wind from a campaigning politico is often strong enough to blow his audience right over to a more entertaining station for the rest of the evening. Since political time is bought on a local, one-time basis, the stations get top dollar for each broadcast, but are still increasingly reluctant to sell time to such gnashing bores...