The mail and the CRIMSON reporter had just come to the Newburyport Town Hall and "Bossy" Gillis was busy. Between his knees stood a wastebasket, rapidly filling with the spoils of the morning.

"Bossy" Gillis, spectacular mayer of Newburyport when interviewed at his cut-rate filling station. "Things are getting like they are in Russia, and we don't want to get in that condition," he went ...