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Michael A. Sullivan has taken Harvard to his bosom. Once the hound of Harvard Square who broke up student parades with the seat of his pants, the fiery Councillor from Ward Six healed that historic breach when he made the "Lampoon" chief publicity agent for his new campaign. Prominent in his new election folder is the cartoon of himself, subbing for St. George astride his warehouse, dealing quick death to Radicalism, Corruption and Vice.
To his potential voters, Mickie no longer offers such flimsy reason for election as changing the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square. Morals are still his main plank, but after last year's condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter who has had the necessity to walk along these through fares late at night, realizes the benefits of this police protection." To prove that he knows of what he is talking, Mickie has decorated the folder with his family picture--one wife, four daughters, five sons.
But students should not support Sullivan merely because he has ceased to make them the butt of his new stories. Much more convincing are "his generosity to the needy people of the ward" and his improvement in the sewerage system which eliminated the danger of flooded cellars. To his job as Councillor, Sullivan has lent a "glamor" which "The Boston Evening American" admits "would take a whole page" to describe and which is rivaled only by B.D.D. Frazier in her own Ward. For the Harvard voter there is but one choice for City Councillor, and if he is slightly hesitant, Sullivan's folder provides the convincing argument: "For transpiration to and from polls call Kirkland 9716."
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