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Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir A^hur William Tedder and Lady Tedder, sightseeing in Manhattan, in a single day encountered such varied American novelties as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, hot dogs, and a college football game (Army 48, Notre Dame...
...candidates got into the public eye as much as possible as the campaign spat to a close last week. But through it all, flashing the personality that has endeared him to New Yorkers even when they were weary of his clowning, fussy, dumpy, outgoing Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia never once lost the center spotlight he loves...
...Bubble Gum. Friday was his big day. In the morning the Mayor paid a surprise visit to a Manhattan traffic court, lectured and grimaced through 197 cases. At 10:30 Friday night, following Governor Dewey's dignified, half-hour endorsement of Republican-Liberal-Fusion Candidate Jonah J. Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap...
...usual, Fiorello LaGuardia had enraged thousands of New Yorkers, tickled thousands, and fascinated thousands. But he had bored very few. Perhaps that was his secret, even more than his withering frankness and his relentless fight for honest government. Whatever it was, the people knew one thing for certain: after 12 years New York City was losing the best Mayor it had ever...
...retraction did not satisfy New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia. Said he, in his Sunday radio chat: "The whole story was a mean, deliberate, cowardly lie. . . . It was published knowing it to be entirely false" . . . was retracted only "after some 14 to 20 large advertisers" squawked...