Chicago seems headed for a weird and ferocious three-way fight for mayor. The contenders: two-term Mayor Martin Kennelly, who has been dumped by the city's Democratic machine; County Clerk Richard J. Daley, who appointed the committee that picked him and dumped Kennelly (and then commented, "I never dreamed it could happen to me"); and Robert E. Merriam, who won election in 1947 to the city council as a Democrat, but turned Republican to run for mayor.
Kennelly, a courtly, white-haired bachelor who made a modest fortune in the warehouse business, had led the...
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