Former publisher of the old Herald Traveler, longtime crony of Billy. Shown here at a 1959 mayoral debate, second from right, seated next to then Senate President John E. Powers of South Boston. Powers lost to John Collins, far left, and went on to become an elected courthouse official. In 1973, he fired Whitey Bulger from his no-show janitor’s job, saying that a mass murderer should not have a set of keys to the district attorney’s office. For his pains, a few years later the pay of Powers and his top aides was frozen – for five years. Who cut Powers’ pay, and why, has never been determined.