Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenth reunion of his college class is where a man discovers with quick amusement that his classmates are married, harried and potty as aldermen. It is also where a man realizes, in dismay, that he is too. Perhaps with the idea of softening the shock, Princeton's class of '49 mailed questionnaires to its 760 members. From 510 anonymous replies, tabulators last week could sketch the sort of old Princetonian who will make the nostalgic trip to Nassau Hall this June: he is plump, prosperous, has most of his hair, is worried about the state of the world...
...page mimeographed Neighborhood News (circ. 225), she waged her first crusade against Chicago's dirty streets and the sanitation department's lethargic collection schedules. By selling ads to local merchants, Alice and a friend raised $25, bought the city six new trash cans, and so shamefaced the aldermen that they appropriated $9,000 more for new cans, asked Alice for a list of street corners where she wanted them placed...
Follow the Leader. In Port Washington, Wis., city employees were administered their Asian-flu vaccinations in order of their importance to the community: garbage detail, rubbish sweepers, waterworks employees, sewage-disposal-plant worker, mayor, aldermen...
...campaigned splenetically for a Juan Smith slate ("The People's Ticket") headed by the county clerk, a third-generation El Pasoan of Mexican extraction named Raymond Telles. The usually mild-mannered morning Times fought a spirited battle to re-elect Mayor Tom Rogers and his board of aldermen. When the Times boasted that its candidate had trimmed the budget, Ed Pooley, a onetime bank clerk, promptly crowed that "the little bitsy budget cut" entailed a saving of exactly "755/1 ,000ths of one per cent...
...track in the little (pop. 1900) town of Bellingham, Mass. on the grounds that it would create "a demoralizing effect" on the community and bad traffic conditions. Inside sources, however, claim that the real reason behind the opposition is not traffic or anything like that but the local aldermen's dislike of the "city outsiders" who would build the track. And whether gambling at a dog track is any more "demoralizing" than Wednesday night beano gambling need not be a consideration in this case...