Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basketball players out of the old Cambridge armory (now an M.I.T. gymnasium) last Sunday night to make way for several hundred small round tables, each with a white and a red carnation in the center and neat white programs with the cartooned image of Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan on the seats. It was a "do" (testimonial dinner) for Sullivan, perenially the top vote-getter in City Council elections...
They rose, thanked the "reverend clergy, distinguished guests at the high table, ladies and gentlemen," and praised "Walter's lovely wife Marion and his five wonderful children." A few evoked memories of Sullivan's late father, Michael A. "Mickey the Dude" Sullivan, who founded the Sullivan political dynasty. "He must be looking down from heaven, happy that there's not a warmer person in public or private life than Walter," was how one speaker...
...Honorable Howard W. Fitzpatrick, High Sheriff of Middlesex County, was there. Some said the dinner had originally been planned as a kick-off for Sullivan's campaign to succeed the supposedly retiring Fitzpatrick as Sheriff, but when "Howie" decided to run again, the "do" became just a "tribute to a good man." Fitzpatrick wished Sullivan "God's choicest blessings." In return, Walter reminded the crowd that "I'm one of Howie's campaign managers. He's running for re-election--don't forget that...
...from the 2500 guests greeted the main speaker, Superior Court Judge Francis J. Good, as he praised "one who rose from the ranks of the people--a friend of the man in the streets, member of a family famed for its industry, its sincerity, and its integrity." Good, like Sullivan, went to St. Paul's School and he noted with pleasure that "St. Paul's is still Walter's home base...
...Sullivan himself looked even nattier than he does each Sunday when, as St. Paul's head usher, he greets parishoners at the door. Silvery hair and glasses gleaming, he bounced from table to table greeting friends and allies. With a broad smile, he accepted flowers from a Democratic committee-woman, a scroll from the Michael A. Sullivan Memorial Associates (a continuing Sullivan campaign organization), a chair from the committee of friends giving the dinner, and a fire-helmet from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's his smile; he'd win it on his smile alone," one woman said...