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Minor actors repeatedly stole the show. New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia did it by raising a hand and commanding, "Come out, sun," when a cloud put the City Hall square in shade. The cloud passed. The sun came out, and the crowd almost killed itself laughing. Crowds along the streets politely applauded the Admiral. But they squealed at the sight of Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, giggled and waved as a 17-year-old marine winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor bawled from a jeep: "Come and kiss me, girls...
Merchants and landowners thought something ought to be done about Sixth Avenue. So, last week, in one of his spasmodic attacks of grandiloquence, did hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Hurriedly he sent an emergency message to the City Council. Members read it with bulging eyes, debated wildly, were unable to call back the moving finger of reform. That evening Manhattan discovered that Sixth Avenue had been renamed "Avenue of the Americas" (pronounced Avunya Damurrikuz...
...Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Manhattan's big-mouthed Mayor, got a glimpse of an all-but-spitting-image grandnephew, Richard Denes, when Correspondent Kathryn Cravens returned from Germany with a photograph (see cut). She found Richard and the Mayor's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, in Berlin...
...pounded a beat for ten years. Then He did such a good job on the "shoofly" squad, routing out grafters among his fellow cops, that he won promotions and made many a political enemy. Not until 1934 did his stubborn honesty pay off; then reforming Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made him the $1a,soo-a-year Commissioner of New York's 18,000-man police force. In his first six years in office, icy-eyed...
Last week Minnie Guggenheimer found a silver-lined way through the clouds. She arranged two post-season "benefit" concerts, and persuaded her 80 musicians to play for nothing. Then she signed Grace Moore to sing, and New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, ever willing to put on a show, to conduct The Stars and Stripes Forever.* To her fans, she confided: "The Mayor's going to decorate Miss Moore. I really don't know with what. ..." When uproarious applause interrupted her, she scolded: "I think you're all just dreadful people...