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...When I first ran for mayor," said Paul Egan of Aurora. Ill. last week, "everybody thought I was a joke. They tried to prove I'm crazy. Once they got working on my wife and they almost had her persuaded to commit me to an institution." Opening the desk drawer in his office in the ramshackle city hall 35 miles west of Chicago, hen-shaped Mayor Egan spat into it, slammed it shut. At 58, blue-eyed, poly-chinned Paul Egan is no joke. The magazine Chicago called him "the worst mayor in the world"-but the electorate...
Bunker, a candidate by certificate for the Board of Overseers, told a meeting sponsored by the HYRC Wednesday night that Norman was a "man known to have close associations with men in Communist circles" and that "one doesn't commit suicide under those circumstances unless something is about to catch up with...
...Laurence E. Bunker '26 said last night that E. Herbert Norman was "a man known to have close associations with men in Communist circles," and that "one doesn't commit suicide under those circumstances unless something is about to catch up with...
Speaking on foreign policy to a public meeting of the Harvard Young Republican Club, Bunker made the statement to illustrate how the exposure of such former associations can put strong pressure on high officials. He asserted that no sane person would commit suicide unless such pressure was very heavy...
...poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig divides his time between beautiful Genevi...