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...really a ceremonial post, but Di Salle quickly converted it into a 14-hour-a-day career. He bounced around town like a loose basketball to attend meetings, sport events and dinners, perform good deeds and hear complaints. Borrowing from one of his political idols, the late Fiorello La Guardia, he would don a whitewing's uniform and sweep a street or peer owlishly from a Toledo newspaper in Indian headdress. When Michael of Rumania stopped at Toledo three years ago, the ex-king remarked with amusement that everybody called the mayor "Mike.'' "If more people called...
When Clendenin J. Ryan, millionaire, amateur political reformer and onetime assistant to New York's Mayor La Guardia, decided last summer to write a book on politics, he got together with Author & Lecturer William Bradford Huie. Turned by a self-described "yarn spinner," Huie's sensational stories, such as his highly exaggerated account of the missing uranium at Chicago's Argonne Laboratory (TIME, May 30, 1949), made lively, if occasionally misleading, reading. But they dropped the book for something much bigger. Huie and Ryan decided to buy the faltering American Mercury. Since the Mercury's circulation...
...busy that she was known as "Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients...
...boss last week. Down from the presidency of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research stepped John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 76, to make way for a younger man. The younger man: his youngest son, David, 35, onetime secretary to New York City's late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In World War II he rose from private to captain, is now a vice president of the Chase National Bank...
...Burned at La Guardia Field...