CALIFORNIA: City Loves Mayor

San Francisco's earnest, able Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham made a grateful announcement: "My one objective will be to further the interest of the city I love." The effort of his political enemies to oust him through a recall vote (TIME, July 15) had failed. The city, by a score of 105,742 to 73,673, last week decided it loved its mayor.

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