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...Lawrence Gerosa, Independent, an amiable trucking millionaire with tight-fisted fiscal ways, was twice elected the city's controller on tickets with Bob Wagner. Dropped by Wagner this year, Gerosa announced that he was the candidate of "God and the good people," is running on a ticket of his own making but has only nuisance value...
Last week was characteristic of the campaign's level. Gerosa began a merry-go-round of accusations by pointing a finger at Wagner for using city-paid domestic help in his Long Island summer home (the New York district attorney's office looked into the case, cleared Wagner of wrongdoing). Gerosa also complained that Wagner had run up a $5,605 food bill between June and September 1960 at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence. Bob Wagner rose in righteous indignation. "I," he cried, "am the first mayor to pay my own food bills at Gracie...
...mayor is also the Liberal Party candidate, and can run on the Liberal ticket in the general election. At that time voters will have to make their choice from a list including not only Wagner and Levitt, but also Republican Candidate Louis J. Lefkowitz and City Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa. Gerosa has broken with both the mayor and the Tammany bosses, will run as an independent beholden only to "God and the good people." Said one reform Democrat in Manhattan last week: "We're stuck with four hacks. Gerosa is a sham. Lefkowitz is a mediocrity. Levitt is Carmine...
...hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City Council President Abe Stark and Controller Lawrence Gerosa as incompetent. New York's Liberal Party-a powerful third force in New York politics-also demanded that Stark and Gerosa be left off the ticket. But Wagner was under equally strong pressure from regular party leaders to keep...
Typically, the mayor tried to please everybody-and ended up pleasing hardly anyone. Sweating profusely at a floodlit conference (where the mayor's frantic brow-mopping provided photographers with readymade man-in-agony pictures), Wagner announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller. The move took Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel...