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Every Sunday afternoon, over Manhattan's city-operated radio station WNYC, Mayor Fiorello ("Lippy") LaGuardia speaks "nonpolitically" to his seven and a half million charges, exhorting them to follow him up the steep, stony path of municipal rectitude. Not many of his charges bother to listen. But on the Nov. 7 broadcast, His hen-shaped Honor extended his audience by tripping over his extended...
Since Paris fell, Manhattan's Fiorello ("Butch") LaGuardia has been as sharply aware of the newest trend in gores and gussets as any village dressmaker. Because style is a big, profitable business ($1.7 billion a year from U.S. women), the Mayor has tirelessly plugged New York-manufactured dresses, has time & again proclaimed Manhattan the new fashion capital of the world. Last week an expert gave the Little Flower a setback...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City, driving along the water front to work, spied a crowd, characteristically jumped out and shouldered his way through to see what was up, found a couple of sailors slugging each other, promptly broke it up, went on to his office...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, who eats assistants alive, was still looking for an executive secretary nearly three weeks after his last resigned. Though the job pays $10,000 a year, nobody had applied...
Through the confusion strode troubled Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, urging the crowds to go home, trying to justify the hope of decent Americans that the race problem need not be thrashed out in wartime violence. Said he, irascible but patient, with his own peculiar dignity...