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...York in the biggest Democratic city-wide landslide in eight years. He won with expected ease, piling up a margin of almost 2 to 1 over his nearest rival, Republican Harold Riegelman, in four of the five boroughs. They split evenly in the fifth. Liberal Party candidate Rudolph Halley, with 370,000 votes, was third behind Riegelman's 527,000 and Wagner...
...court fight over the signatures, the Wagnerites seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican administrations as well), they...
This leaves the two candidates who have the proper social purpose to be mayor of New York City: Rudolph Halley and Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Halley is a Johnny-come-lately to the public service, while Wagner has been in public life for sixteen years. Halley flashed to eminence in the Kefauver hearings. Wagner has built his reputation brick by brick. Halley has held one office, President of the City Council, in which he voted on crucial issues with a fickleness that raises doubts as to his sincerity. Wagner has been State Assemblyman, head of the New York Planning Commission...
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Born. To Rudolph Halley, 40, lawyer, TV star (the 1950-51 Kefauver Crime Committee hearings), president of the New York city council and Liberal Party candidate for mayor, and Janice Brosh Halley, 33, his third wife (his first and second wives divorced him): their first child (his third), a son; in Manhattan. Weight...