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Died. Gordon S. Rentschler, 62, chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank of New York; of a heart ailment; in Havana. He was once described by the late Fiorello LaGuardia as "the one banker I know who has none of the traits of the pawnbroker...
...fewer than five clubs had gone in for a touch of Minsky. In place of swing bands they had installed knockabout comedians in baggy pants, and strip-teasers in net brassieres. The town hadn't seen so many strippers since 1942, when Fiorello LaGuardia sent them packing...
...loin cloth, and to hear the latest medical bulletins. This time, however, a jarring note sounded. A small crowd of unsympathetic Hindus and Sikhs began to shout: "Let Gandhi die!" From an automobile lunged Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who is India's Johnny-on-the-spot as Fiorello LaGuardia was Manhattan's. Cried Nehru: "How dare you say that? Kill me first!" Nehru chased the dissidents down the street. Inside, Gandhi dozed...
...banned by the New York Supreme Court from trading in securities in New York. Four years later he turned up as "a war contract broker" in Washington's famed "House on R Street" inquiry (TIME, May 15, 1943). In 1944 New York City's late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia accused him of being the front man for Racketeer Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler in deals in war surplus goods...
Something of an operatic figure him self, New York's late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to start a people's opera. Four years ago he did - the non-profit New York City Opera Company -and hired an unsung director named Laszlo Halasz to run it: he was the only applicant who had no pull. But he id have push - enough push to start a small operatic revolution...