The Great Hyde Park Rip Off Reappears in Community Lens
Robert Lerner rails at Hyde Park as a rip off area with dishonest merchants and self service traps like two packs of Luckies charged as one. He stacks comic cosmic comparisons to Saturn and Mars to argue the neighborhood’s bad practices and polarization, urging readers to respond.
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Robert Lerner
North Side
Lerner
Hyde Park
Chicago
56Th Street
Rexall
51St and Lake Park
Natchez
Mobile
Glow
Lunt
Western
New York Art Directors
51St and
Lake Park
Floyd Patterson
Mars
Deimos
Phobos
House of Astrology
New York’s
HydeWar era goes to Bruce Sagan and staff in note
The passage lists HydeWar era staff including Bruce Sagan publisher Cheryl Fries editor Marvin Bohannan general manager Daniel Glim display advertising Estelle Roth classified advertising manager Emma Byrd Mildred Clark and Peter Hince circulation manager.
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Bruce Sagan
Cheryl Fries
Marvin Bohannan
Daniel Glim
Estelle Roth
Emma Byrd
Mildred Clark
Peter Hince
Alderman Reports City Employment Discrimination Study
Hyde Park Fifth Ward committee produced a report detailing discrimination against women in city staffing. Arlene Selvern and Margaret Hughes gathered payroll data from ten departments, totaling 3 120 employees, with access to payroll sheets but not printouts. four aldermen and seven women’s groups supported an anti discrimination ordinance and study, aided by ACLU and a public workers union.
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Understan
Hyde Park
Fifth Ward
Citizens Committee
FWCC
Arlene Selvern
Barat College
Margaret Hughes
Hyde Parkers
ACLU
Public Workers’ Union
League of Black Women
Amita W. Boswell
League of Women Voters
Elinore Elam
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Hyde Park Herald
Madison Street
Lerner Newspapers
HydeWar
wentDheet
Fred Fuller Bennett
Clarence P. Dresser
Hyde Park Herald Inc
S. Harper
Midway
Inca Il
Malla
Leon M. Despres