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...Monday night, third-place Milwaukee, a dynamic, powerful ballclub hitting its stride in the season's final days, arrives at Fenway Park for an old-time, chills-down-the-spine September series...
There have been victories for Walter Sullivan--his several stints as mayor, for example--and there have been setbacks--including a decade of losses to the liberals. But he is a politician, and takes his defeats in stride. Only once, he says, has he been truly disappointed. That was in the mid-1970s, when city liberals concerned about traffic congestion managed to block the planned construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Harvard Square. On his office wall there are several pictures of him and Kennedy touring possible sites for the library. Cambridge "was the only place...
...courtroom door swings open to the beat of music that sounds like a cross between . the themes from Hollywood Squares and Mission: Impossible. In stride Plaintiffs Katharina and Max Binder, the angry owners of Binder's Scissor Styling. Next come the defendants, Ray Cason and his daughter Michelle, 12. At issue: $43 that Cason refused to pay the Binders for a permanent that Michelle got in their salon one afternoon. Cason claimed that the permanent failed to hold up through Michelle's birthday party that evening...
...evening edition never hit a consistent editorial stride; at first it was so badly organized that it was hard to find regular features. Says one former staffer: "They started Tonight on Aug. 18. By Labor Day it was clear that management was already uncomfortable with the paper." Tonight underwent a major cutback and editorial overhaul in June, when Felker departed. Some of the paper's special sections were cut in half and distribution to outlying suburban areas was curtailed. As Hunt put it later: "Storm clouds were coming up in the financial numbers." In recent weeks Tonight staffers...
...became a copy boy at the New York Daily News. He fell in love. "Silence. The sound of dust settling... I waited. It came-the dull tentative growl of presses. It was slow. It gathered confidence. The hollow sound, like a train approaching a tunnel, hit its stride, and the floor, the walls, the ceiling trembled as though in fear of the news they had spawned." He lasted a year...