The Cities

In Detroit, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries sought a fifth term with new backers. During three previous campaigns he had been bitterly opposed by the U.A.W.-C.I.O.; this time the union gave him its support.

But Jeffries' opponent, Councilman Eugene I. van Antwerp, complained loud & long about the price Mayor Jeffries had paid for his U.A.W. blessing. Some two months ago, he charged, Mayor Jeffries had obligingly looked the other way when U.A.W. used roughhouse tactics in an organization drive. Police sent to halt the riots said they had been told privately not to make arrests.

Last week Detroit citizens voted Jeffries out and Van Antwerp in. The U.A.W. score: no runs, no hits, four errors.

In San Francisco, Elmer E. Robinson, 52, a much-married (four times) Superior Court judge, succeeded to the mayor's chair voluntarily vacated by peripatetic Roger D. Lapham, who had traveled widely in his unsuccessful efforts to bring the United Nations to his home town. Elected by a narrow margin over two opponents, Robinson had the varied support of civic leaders, liquor interests and the Hearst newspapers.

In Philadelphia, Mayor Bernard ("Barney") Samuel's pachydermatous machine was too much for crusading Dick Dilworth, the Democratic candidate (TIME, Oct. 27). The machine delivered the vote in the solid downtown wards and buried Dilworth* under a plurality of more than 90,000 votes. Republican control of Philadelphia, undisturbed for 63 years, was secure for another four.

* Who will continue crusading in a weekly column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, which had supported Samuel in the election.

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