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...Baby Patrick Fiorello Ginsburg has a most unusual code number. It is J64:Med23:G 13 and, in one man's brave new world, it will determine not only what Patrick eats and learns but also what his privileges and punishments will be (see BEHAVIOR, "Rx for Democracy...
...sure, the most prominent political figure of Italian descent was Fiorello La Guardia, who helped New York City survive the Great Depression of thirty years ago. Here was a man of the people in the finest sense of the word, a mayor who molded the citizens of New York together during the hardest of times...
While dweiling on this melting put concept, it is interesting to point out that Fiorello La Guardia's father was Italian, but his mother was Jewish, and that Roy Campanelia's father was Italian, while his mother was black...
...Aside from Newark and Jersey City, much of the state retained a rural character until the opening of the George Washington Bridge in 1931. New Jersey suited the underworld's needs perfectly. The Hudson River separated its members from the tough law enforcement of New York racketbusters like Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Dewey and, more recently, Frank Hogan. Neither police forces nor local government had caught up with the state's sudden population growth. To make matters worse, officials were only too eager to accommodate the free-spending gangsters...
...elderly, white-haired gent with published writings. But the real Procaccino is an everyday guy, at his best kidding with the fellows and at his worst slinging mud. His have been by far the funniest lines of the campaign-and not, as his detractors charge, malapropisms. When Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia endorsed Lindsay, Mario came up with the observation that "There is no real conflict here: Mayor LaGuardia chose me as a public servant, he chose Marie as his wife." Procaccino also coined the only durable catch-phrase of the campaign, describing the Lindsay set as "limousine liberals...