Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audition. In Philadelphia, investigating complaints that someone was screaming in the Shubert Theater at 4 a.m., cops found Night Watchman Hector Williams, 67, singing "My object all sublime" from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado to 1,900 empty seats...
...late City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan, one of the most colorful men in Cambridge politics, also seemed to take exception to a King's attitude toward Harvard. But "Mickey the Dude," as he was called in his ward, was well-liked by many students and faculty members...
...good chance for publicity, he had his eyes blackened with charcoal by a student. Then he called over photographers from the press wire services and showed them his "eyes which were blackend by a Harvard student." The following day newspapers throughout the nation picked up the picture of Mickey Sullivan with "the blackeyes which rioting Harvard students inflicted...
Another time, Sullivan thought that all statues should go into the war time scrap drive-works of art included. He then introduced an order in the City Council demanding that the bronze statues in the Germanic Museum he seized and melted into scrap. He sincerely thought he was helping the war effort by this order, but he felt too that statues of German heroes should be melted anyway...
...Sullivan was well-liked in his ward; there are many stories of the times when the indominitable little Councilor got up in the middle of the night to aid a constituent. His attacks on Harvard were purely superficial: he knew all the members of the Porcellian Club by their first names and he had a strong friendship with several important members of the faculty. He maintained a "midnight table" for himself and his friends at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria. Most of the time, these "friends" were students...