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...nice ambassadorship for Mayor William O'Dwyer, timed just right to require a Nov. 7 New York City election for his successor. And then when Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, a docile Tammanyite, had refused to get out of the way for Boss Flynn's candidate (Justice Ferdinand Pecora), Impellitteri had been offered a 14-year judgeship on the state supreme court, paying $28,000 a year. That buying-out deal had gone wrong; Impellitteri was still running for mayor, but at least Boss Flynn and Tammany had tried hard. In the confusion, there had seemed little chance...
...Ferdinand Eberstadt is a wise and hard-headed financier, a wartime vice chairman of the War Production Board. In a recent speech in Seattle, Eberstadt made some wise and hardheaded points about U.S. foreign policy and the state of the world. Said...
Their hero is a man whom even Jazz Pianist-Composer Ferdinand ("Jelly-Roll") Morton, a notoriously uncharitable critic, acknowledged as "the greatest ragtime writer that ever lived." In a book packed with the high-sounding names of old ragtime wizards and composers ("Blind Boone," "Jack the Bear," "One-Leg Shadow"), a quiet-mannered, softspoken, scholarly little man stands out above them all: Scott Joplin, the composer of Maple Leaf...
Impy's Ideas. As for the mayoralty, the bosses' choice was New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora. But rangy, smiling Vincent Impellitteri ("Impy" to tabloid headline writers), who will serve in the interim as acting mayor, had other ideas. Impellitteri wanted his temporary lease to the mayor's mansion extended for another four years...
...from both armies. From Hwanggan to Yongdok on the east coast, MacArthur's headquarters estimated that 90,000 North Koreans had been poured in against the Americans and South Koreans. Major General Hobart R. Gay, dashing commander of the ist Cavalry, paraphrased World War I's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Said Gay: "Foch said that there comes a time in every battie when both commanders think they are losing. Then the one who attacks, wins. I shall attack."* General Gay did attack. An artillery barrage of white phosphorus shells caused an estimated 1,600 to 2,000 enemy casualties...