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General Omar N. Bradley, home from the wars, was greeted by his wife at New York's LaGuardia Field, got in a blitz-quick kiss before photographers caught a more formal reunion...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York's fractious, frabjous little Mayor, looked forward to a monthly radio broadcast over WJZ, and looked over his shoulder at one of his pet projects, the New York City Center of Music and Drama. Admitting that he had never attended a ballet performance there, he explained: "I'm so prejudiced against ballet. I can't be fair about it. It's the male ballet dancers I can't stand...
...cities felt the meat shortage as never before. New York City seemed to have the largest problem, and as usual made the loudest noise. Hundreds of its butcher shops closed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still ate well-in restaurants. But many more did not. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia screamed at Washington: "You can't feed headlines to children!" He proposed that restaurant eaters be made to give up red ration points for meat served to them. Said the OPA of the Mayor's scheme: "Too late...
Last week the News wore its favorite, city-kid's air. Tired of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's civic scoldings, the News plunged into the tawdry past, and came up with a Manhattan mayoralty candidate it could really be enthusiastic about: Jimmy Walker...
...matter . . . was that it was fun to be in New York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame for that; but [so has] LaGuardia. . . . Jimmy Walker . . . would win in a walk, on the nostalgic vote...