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Morrissey defeated her next five opponents by 3-0 scores, including Ann Sawyer, Princeton's number three player. Morrissey defeated Coleman in the finals...
Hope Nichols, jumping up to the number-threesports after not playing at all in the beginningof the season, recorded a 15-12, 15-11, 15-9victory over Princeton's Ann Sawyer...
That was hardly an auspicious start for the man the 50-member council finally, at 4 a.m., elected Chicago's acting mayor. Normally calm and courtly, Sawyer was so shaken by the twelve-hour wrangle that he considered pulling out of the contest. He feared not only that he could not unite blacks but that the rising emotions might turn violent. Five aldermen supporting Sawyer said they had received death threats; at least one wore a bulletproof vest during the wild debate. But after asking ministers to pray with him in an upstairs office, Sawyer decided to stay...
...Sawyer, 53, will serve until a special election in April 1989. Elected to the council in 1971, after climbing through South Side ward politics, the Alabama native has been an effective operator who got along with both the Richard Daley machine and the constituents of his black middle-class district. Under Chicago's notorious patronage system, Sawyer admits, he was able to place 16 friends and relatives in city jobs. Yet he was the first black alderman to break with former Mayor Jane Byrne and thus help Washington defeat her in 1983. He supported Washington's policies...
...Sawyer's first task will be to persuade the late mayor's disappointed followers that he has not made any deals with the white aldermen who gave him his new job. "When Harold Washington proclaimed that the machine is dead, he was speaking the absolute truth," Sawyer declared after being sworn in. "Harold, buddy, I will not let you down." But unless such rhetoric is followed by deeds, most Chicago voters, black and white, will remain skeptical...