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...Lawrence Gerosa, former comptroller of New York City...
...York is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And last week, after one of the dreariest campaigns in its history, New York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence Gerosa collected a protest vote of 321,996-drawn mostly from Democrats who shuddered at the thought of four more Wagnerian years...
...leader of New York State's Democrats, gives him the chance to heal the canyon-sized breach between the organization regulars and the Herbert Lehman-Eleanor Roosevelt reformers who backed him against the bosses.* Wagner's probable first move: replacing State Chairman Michael Prendergast, who openly backed Gerosa. Since the voters also approved a drastic reform in the city charter. Wagner will have far more control of city affairs than ever before, might be able to achieve a measure of administrative efficiency...
...Louis J. Lefkowitz suggested that the pledges might have violated the city charter, which forbids city employees from accepting gifts "from any person, firm or corporation which, to his knowledge, is interested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever in business dealings with the city." City Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa, running as an independent, was less delicate. "The mayor has set one of the worst examples in municipal history," he said. "He should resign...
...organization support to pull him through. But even if Wagner is defeated in the primary, he will still be the nominee of the Liberal Party and of the brand-new, labor-backed Brotherhood Party, and will appear on the November ballot. So, too, will both Republican Lefkowitz and Independent Gerosa. Thus, there is a distinct possibility that between September and November the same four candidates will still be at it-which should make the campaign even woise than it was before...