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...YORK CITY is well known for its long and sensational political history -- Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, "handsome" Jimmy Walker, Fiorello LaGuardia, William O'Dwyer, etc. The Big Apple is jammed with warring factions: reformers fight reformers and bosses battle bosses. Unlike Chicago, where one man has ruled with supreme authority for two decades, New York is the scene of constantly shifting alliances and a frantic scramble for power and patronage...
...next few years, the partners (Griffith died in 1961) went on to produce or co-produce Damn Yankees (total profit: $1,262,500), New Girl in Town ($144,500), West Side Story ($2,120,000) and Fiorello ($528,000), along with a couple of flops. Prince became known as a man who could see a musical in virtually anything. In 1958 he was put onstage himself in fictional form as Ted Snow, the boy-wonder producer in the musical Say, Darling. "I'm trying to acquire the rights to a new book that I think will make a great...
...city government reform since the 1930s, Sayre regarded the creation of combined city-and-suburban planning units as the salvation of metropolitan centers. Though a prominent academician, Sayre never forgot the practical lessons in hard-nosed politics that he received as a civil service commissioner under New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The 1960 study, Governing New York City, that he wrote with a colleague, Herbert Kaufman, became a classic how-to handbook for big-city mayors...
...world that could stop him from delivering one. As one friend put it, "You meet him on the street and stop for a six-hour conversation." He wrote enough letters to the editor to fill a book. Norman Mailer was still a schoolboy when Newman ran against Fiorello La Guardia in 1933 for mayor of New York City on a Writers-Artists ticket. He lost, of course. "My politics," he later recalled, "went toward open forms and free situations...
...Patrick Fiorello Ginsburg is a hypothetical young man of indeterminate age. His E.Q. (Ethnic Quotient), however, can be precisely and succinctly stated as J64:Med23:G13. Translated, that signifies that he is 64% Jewish, 23% Italian (the "Med" standing for Mediterranean ancestry) and 13% Irish (Gaelic). Of what use to Ginsburg is his E.Q., which, if the "New Democracy" prevails, will be attached to him at birth and govern his role in society for the rest of his life...