Word: abe
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Nobody knows which two-eyed actor Cohn finally hired, but in the next two years one-eyed Falk won two Oscar nominations (for his portrayals of the vicious killer Abe Reles in Murder, Inc. and the Brooklyn hood in Pocketful of Miracles). His career then settled into a series of forgettable Hollywood films (The Great Race, Castle Keep, Luv) and a sprinkling of Italian epics. A TV series in 1965, The Trials of O'Brien (in which he played a slobbish lawyer similar to Columbo), folded after one season...
...YORK: Bored and exhausted by the internecine political wars of the past decade, Democrats finally agreed on-or succumbed to-a single choice for mayor. If for no other reason, bantam-size Abe Beame, 67, had earned the designation because of his 40 years of unstinting service to the party. Picking up support from the right and left, from reformers and clubhouse regulars, from real estate interests and civil service unions, the city comptroller rolled up a staggering 58% of the vote, leaving his three opponents pathetically far behind...
...city with the greatest concentration of Jews in the world has elected its first Jewish mayor. And, more importantly, for the first time in the last three tries. New York has elected a man who came up through the ranks of one of the city's established Democratic organizations: Abe Beame, a 67-year old Brooklyn man, now the city's Comptroller...
Still it is unclear whether Abe Beame will do much to help New York. He was elected as a caretaker, a man to try to keep politics off the TV news, with a face that won't interfere with the commercials when he fails. A city like New York, seemingly lurching in every direction at once without an apparent plan, needs more than a caretaker. Beame's combination of cautious administration and the meticulous pluralism called for by his organizational base will lock his administration into the same types of solutions that failed in the past, the blind...
...Abe Beame has adopted the world view of the machine politician; he is the reflection of the political organization's view of the electorate. He is conservative and frugal, hopefully competent and hard-working. This is the view that convinced McGovern that he had to turn to the right in the midst of his 1972 campaign, and this is the view that induced Herman Badillo to make a television commercial in the middle of his run-off battle with Beame showing him proudly parading in front of his expensive home in Riverdale (an exclusive section of the Bronx), trying...