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Evasive though it was on many subjects, Luchese's testimony nonetheless produced some surprising revelations. By his own statement, his acquaintances, social or otherwise, included Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...
...year-old son of Actor Melvyn Douglas and ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, dragged Butler to a car and drove him down to the Douglas apartment on Park Avenue. They bound his hands, taped his mouth, wrapped his face and head with bandages, and whisked him off to La Guardia airport. There they plunked him on a plane, strapped him in his seat, explained to an attendant that he was "horribly burned." After Butler had wriggled uncomfortably for a while, a fellow passenger released him, but by that time the plane was in the air. At 1:30 a.m., Butler...
...Eisenhower, Mrs. Fiorello La Guardia, widow of the famed "Little Flower," who, while mayor of New York City, helped organize the American Labor Party. Mrs. La Guardia supported Roosevelt in 1944, Truman...
...season also brought one notable triumph to the stadium's bustling guardian genius, Mrs. Charles S. ("Minnie") Guggenheimer, 70, in her running battle with the weather (five concerts rained out) and airplanes. After a series of appeals to La Guardia Field, pilots agreed to cooperate by routing their nights away from the stadium during the concerts, and the number of pianissimo passages drowned out by droning engines overhead went down from 14 (on opening night) to an average of two a night at the end of the season...
...beautiful if you bother to see its beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee cup, a romantic landscape from the bleak hangars and dingy flats of La Guardia Airport seen across turgid Flushing...