Boston City Politicians to Go On Stump as College Clubs Prepare

The pre-season election lassitude in Boston and Cambridge will quickly wear off next week as politicians begin campaigning in earnest. At stake in Cambridge are a mayorship, eight city council, and six school committee positions; in Boston, a mayorship, nine city council, and five school committee posts.

College political clubs are expected to get behind their candidates next week. So far, the only active college group has been the Liberal Union, whose members manned sound trucks and worked at polls during Boston's primary Tuesday.

In both cities the voters will decide whether they want to continue "good government" administrations. The reform group in Cambridge--the Cambridge Civic Association--has successfully backed a majority of the candidates in the city council since 1941.

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Boston voters indicated in primary elections they are satisfied with the present "good government" administration. They gave Mayor John B. Hynes, a City Hall career man, a total of 108,428 votes, against 77,011 for former Mayor James Michael Curley. Two other candidates were eliminated from running November 6.

The most significant outcome of the primary elections, however, was not Mayor Hynes' stunning victory, but the spectacular showing of the New Boston Committee, headed by Jerome Rappaport '45, which was recently organized to give "good government to the people of Boston". The New Boston Committee's entire nine man council and five man school committee slate was nominated.