Maury Maverick, colorful, pugnacious, bullheaded, hardworking, and as ardent a New Dealer as Harold Ickes, last week ran second best in the Democratic election for the mayoralty of San Antonio.
He was stunned. But not for long. Maverick had run on his record—the housing project, the reorganization of the police and fire departments, his friendship for San Antonio's 94,000 Mexican-Americans.
That record looked good for a reform mayor, looked particularly good compared with that of his opponent, tall and grey-haired, dignified and distant, Charles Quin. San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years...
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