Word: laguardias
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After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon (Daily Express circulation, 3,442,366), hopped to the U.S. en route to Bermuda, behaved for all the world like a newspaper-hater. At LaGuardia Field newsmen got a quick "no comment" brushoff. The New York Times, which knows dignity when it sees it, headlined: LORD BEAVERBROOK ARRIVES, IN SILENCE...
Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, which is loudly "against people who push other people around," is itself probably journalism's No. 1 pusher-arounder. Its Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll last week directed a hearty shove at one of his own columnists, Fiorello LaGuardia. Wrote Ingersoll...
...Mayor LaGuardia said on the air Sunday that he was on Bill O'Dwyer's side in the transit crisis. He certainly should be-since he's the fellow who got Bill O'Dwyer into his present fix. ... If O'Dwyer gets into trouble, LaGuardia can always quote him another fable or two in PM. Fiorello won't have to take...
...pushed with impunity, LaGuardia (who has PM's promise to print whatever he writes) whirled about and sharply kicked the Ingersoll shin...