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Reluctantly, last spring, greying Fiorello LaGuardia admitted to himself that he was not well. He was 64, but he awaited a cure with characteristic impatience. As a radio commentator, columnist and freelance oracle, he was as full of furious plans as he had been during his twelve years as mayor of New York. He went to Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital for an operation in June, hoping to hear that he could soon go on breaking lances against the enormous villains with whom his frenetic world was peopled. Instead, he heard his death sentence-he was suffering from cancer...
...Yorkers knew his history. He was born in a tenement on Manhattan's lower East Side, the son of poor immigrants from Italy. But his father, a musician named Achille LaGuardia, joined the U.S. Army and became bandmaster of the 11th Infantry Regiment; Fiorello's boyhood was spent in Arizona Army posts. It was a good boyhood. He learned music (all his life he worshiped opera, and as mayor he took delight in leading bands and orchestras). He also rode half-wild range horses and learned early that brashness could be a substitute for size...
While International, national, and Florida storms raged, the former mayor of New York City, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, lying quietly ill in New York as the result of an operation last June, was reported at midnight as "slightly worse" and "not expected to regain full consciousness...
...Rakosi's Smallholder colleagues by the secret police (TIME, June 9), the other ministers are virtually his prisoners. Last week, the A.P.'s Daniel De Luce interviewed this successful Communist statesman. De Luce reported that Rakosi "is full of belly laughs, looks as short and tubby as Fiorello LaGuardia, cracks out commentaries faster than Walter Winchell...
Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...