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...Kevin White, a somewhat sophisticated and cosmopolitan politician, as Mayor and the election of John L.Saltonstall '38, a true Boston Brahmin, and of Thomas Atkins, a Negro, to the Boston City Council indicates otherwise. And other observers had wondered if Mrs. Hicks' old-fashioned "house party and hand-shake" campaign style, and her emotional appeals to parochialism and selfishness would be as effective now as in the past. Yesterday's results indicate otherwise...
...McCurdy can come up with some more of his magic psyche, and if sophomore sensations Roy Shaw and Keith Colburn can shake their crippling injuries, Harvard might be in shape for the big win. In yesterday's meet Shaw failed to finish, and Colburn could only finish far back and in considerable pain. Colburn did make an encouraging gesture by outkicking a Yalie who tried to pass him in the stretch...
...Salutary Shake-Up. Shaw's energetic speechmaking to civic groups has also given the Establishment a salutary shaking up (his opener at the Junior League: "I feel as if I'm in the midst of a huge, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant harem"); and he has served notice that he hopes for even greater changes to come: more tours, participation by the orchestra in opera and ballet productions, creation of a conservatory in Atlanta...
...likes to say. And so most tourists believe; they are content to play at the tables in hopes of beating the odds, fully aware that they favor the house. If the players lose-and most do-they can go away at least feeling that they have had a fair shake. Then abruptly last week Nevada's gambling industry found its image marked with two black eyes; the state Gaming Control Board closed the big Lake Tahoe Hotel Casino after detecting crooked dice-the second casino in a month to be shut down for running a rigged crap game...
Shone out! . . . whom our stars shake, could we emerge...