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...Bowron, whose name incidentally fell out of Mickey's big mouth. Bowron's lawyer pointed out that, although the program was announced as "unrehearsed," the fact that it was shown in Los Angeles three hours later on a kinescope made it a "deliberate and calculated event...
After a record 15 years as mayor of Los Angeles, long-winded, doggedly industrious Fletcher Bowron, who presided in the last decade over one of the most astounding episodes of municipal expansion in U.S. history, was finally beaten for office. His successor: Oregon-born G.O.P. Congressman Norris Poulson, a bespectacled, 57-year-old accountant who got into California politics as a state legislator in 1938, and served four terms in Congress before running for mayor. Against Poulson, an honest but undistinguished politico, Bowron was deprived of a campaign weapon which had served him well in the past: predicting direly that...
...Bowron (as he claims) is "The Nation's Most Respected Mayor" [April 20], such respect must be centered east of the Rockies in the vicinity of TIME'S editorial offices. We have never had the "habit" of respecting highhanded political "tactics" here...
...Bowron's plight made this election year an open season. Four candidates decided to campaign against him. One of them, an undistinguished Congressman named Norris Poulson, 57, drew the backing of Los Angeles' business community and the rich, powerful Los Angeles Times. Poulson campaigned hard; Bowron spent much of his TV time on such municipal problems as the garbage-collection budget...
Last week, in a heavy turnout, Norris Poulson polled more votes (44%) than any of the other candidates, including Bowron (35%). Betting was heavy that changing Los Angeles would change mayors in the runoff next month, unless Fletcher Bowron, now 65, changes his tactics first...