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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dollars to Democrats. When Bob Wagner, as a boy, was hobnobbing with New York's great and near-great, Jack Javits was a skinny-legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin"). Of his boyhood, Javits recalls that "the most money I ever had was a penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past...
Years later (after nearly working himself to death-as a candy-store delivery boy, lithographic-supply salesman, bill collector-while going through high school and New York University Law School), it came time for Jack Javits to make his own decision about party affiliation. He remembered how his father had been sent vote-buying by Tammany-and Jack became a Republican. He was a devoted and active follower of that able, highly eccentric Republican Fiorello La Guardia...
...while, Bobby had listened in terror as Wally explained his plan. He was going to take all three of them to the bank, said the bandit, and hold the boy and Mrs. Kuhel hostage while the father fetched out $75,000 in greenbacks. As his father, stalling for time, pointed out flaws in the arrangement, Bobby had asked the thug if he might go to the bathroom. Too busy arguing with the father to care about the boy, Wally waved him away. That was when Bobby got the gun. When Bobby came downstairs a moment later, Wally marched all three...
...seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand a smoking target pistol. "When that man pointed his gun at Dad's head," said Bobby Kuhel, "I just saw red. I didn't know I fired twice...
Next day at school, the boy's teacher asked him if he cared to tell the class about "the accident you had." Said Bobby Kuhel shyly: "I didn't have an accident...