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Article: For veteran pol Pucinski, `this is no time for tears'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 3, 1991
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The TV cameras peered through the glass of Roman C. Pucinski's
private office, hoping to record a sad face or a tear on this night
of his Last Hurrah.
"Grandpa," said one of the alderman's granddaughters, "can I
close the drapes?"
Pucinski looked up. He saw the cameras pointed his way. "No!"
he said.
The alderman lost his bid for a sixth term Tuesday, but he
refused to whine or curse or flee the public eye. In 33 years in
politics, he was never known to duck a notebook or camera, and he
wasn't about to change his ways now.
Call it vanity. Or call it pride and dignity.
It was about 8:45 p.m. when the alderman walked into his 41st
Ward office on Milwaukee Avenue, trailed by his ...