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...find some other flair? After a TIME story mentioning the caloric content of modern bread, Reader R. C. Dewey of Arcadia, Calif...
...best radio and television time. When he did get on TV he looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey...
...loud-voiced argument might or might not have an effect on the campaign for mayor. But the man with the most at stake in the whole mess is not a candidate for mayor. He is Tom Dewey. His eleven years as governor of New York have been generally free of scandal. How he handles the current uproar, regardless of whether any national figures are involved, may have a great impact on his personal and political future...
...Harold Riegelman, Republican candidate for mayor, to put Wagner on a really hot spot. Said Riegelman "Wagner could not go far in this campaign without revealing a reckless dishonesty and cowardice . . . He had better put up promptly or be forever branded as totally untrustworthy and unfit." This week Governor Dewey's counsel George M. Shapiro, wired Wagner: "Name . . . the alleged person or publicly retract...
Characteristically, ex-District Attorney Dewey started off forcefully, was running hard at the first turn. He 1) appointed a commission to investigate the race-track operations, and 2) moved for (and probably will get) the removal of Republican Leader Arthur Wicks of the state senate, who was a five-time caller at Joey Fay's Sing Sing cell. After his investigating commission reports. Dewey is expected to propose new laws to cut down the opportunities for shakedowns at the race tracks and also for labor racketeering anywhere in New York...