Word: fiorello
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...smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since New York City's Fiorello La Guardia read the comics...
Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion...
...George Abbott. At the ripe old age of 80, he is directing an updated Hellzapoppin (1938-41), this time with Soupy Sales and Nancy Walker. Another Abbott entry: a musical version of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, featuring Tom Bosley (Fiorello!). For Abbott, the shows are the 109th and 110th of his career...
Since the days of Fiorello La Guardia, New York has seemed a fairly antiseptic town. No more. Oldtimers and out-of-town tourists alike are astonished this summer at the parade of prostitutes who have turned midtown Manhattan into a bawdwalk that compares with Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Atlantica or Rome's Via Veneto...
...Republican - much less a WASP-as mayor. But Lindsay, on a platform pledged to good government and an end to partisan politics, wriggled into City Hall on the back of the most massive defection of Democratic and independent voters the Republican party had seen since the days of Fiorello H. LaGuardia...