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Celebrity roast: Mayor John Sewell gets a bit of his own back after taking most of the barbs from other speakers at a roast for former police chief, Harold Adamson, left
Celebrity roast: Mayor John Sewell gets a bit of his own back after taking most of the barbs from other speakers at a roast for former police chief, Harold Adamson, left

Celebrity roast: Mayor John Sewell gets a bit of his own back after taking most of the barbs from other speakers at a roast for former police chief, Harold Adamson, left

Date8/5/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Celebrity roast: Mayor John Sewell gets a bit of his own back after taking most of the barbs from other speakers at a roast for former police chief, Harold Adamson, left.
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