Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drives and tensions, the racial currents and religious crosscurrents of New York politics take form in the persons and careers of Bob Wagner, 46, and Jack Javits, 52, the one a Catholic who was born to the political manor and now holds one of the world's biggest-and most cruelly difficult-political jobs; the other a Jew who rose from squalor to become the highest elected Republican official in the state today...
Dollars to Democrats. When Bob Wagner, as a boy, was hobnobbing with New York's great and near-great, Jack Javits was a skinny-legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin"). Of his boyhood, Javits recalls that "the most money I ever had was a penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past...
Years later (after nearly working himself to death-as a candy-store delivery boy, lithographic-supply salesman, bill collector-while going through high school and New York University Law School), it came time for Jack Javits to make his own decision about party affiliation. He remembered how his father had been sent vote-buying by Tammany-and Jack became a Republican. He was a devoted and active follower of that able, highly eccentric Republican Fiorello La Guardia...
Pencils to Literates. By 1946, after his discharge as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's chemical-warfare branch, Jack Javits had made enough of a name as a promising young Republican lawyer to be offered the party's nomination for Congress from Manhattan's 21st District. It was not much of an offer: Tammany Hall had been carrying the 21st by two-to-one margins for 25 years. That made no difference to Jack Javits; he eagerly accepted the offer and flung himself into the campaign, having also picked up the endorsement of the Liberal Party...
...last week, when Democrat Bob Wagner was still cautiously, methodically planning his campaign (which he will open formally this week), Republican Jack Javits was off and running. On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Jewish ritual forbade his riding in a car. He therefore set off on foot from the swank, twelve-room Park Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan...