Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reorganized. Where Adams had only one deputy-Persons-Staff Chief Jerry Persons will have three. Oklahoma City Publisher Bryce Harlow, 42, previously Persons' Capitol Hill assistant, becomes Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs; former Chicago Alderman and Republican Mayoralty Candidate Robert Merriam, 40, becomes Deputy Assistant for Interdepartmental Affairs; a third deputy, still to be named, will act as Persons' immediate assistant. Leading prospect: Treasury Undersecretary Fred Scribner of Maine...
Working Committee. In Peterborough, Ont., when the mayor asked an opinion on the ideal size of a group to study a proposed junior college project, Alderman Ross Dobbin volunteered: "Three people -one dead and one out of town...
Died. James B. ("The Silver Fox") Bowler, 82, oldtime Chicago West Side ward boss, alderman (except for two brief intervals) from 1906 to 1953, and U.S. Congressman from 1953; in Chicago. Elder statesman of the city's Democratic machine, Bowler shared power all through the boodle days with "Hinky Dink" Kenna and his close friend "Bathhouse John" Coughlin, whose insurance business Bowler took over when Coughlin died (1938), once maintained his own rifle-equipped "army" to hold out against gangster attempts to invade and take over his ward...
...Alderman Brigg and the new minister (suspect because he comes from the frivolous South) fight it out on the hard Calvinist line. The new man wavers on "those harsh and narrow dogmas," and the feud with Brigg is on. In the end the minister lies mysteriously dead, the peace of families has been ruined, the chapel is tern down, and a new congregation-with a softer creed has risen-and only then the reader notices that he has seen a picture of the inner life of nonconformist 19th century England...
...17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity director in 1943, four times handily won election as alderman from his home ward before he took over city hall...