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Little, intense Mrs. Rosenberg, friend and confidante of Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia and many another bigwig, freely admitted that her outside salary came from R. H. Macy-Bamberger (department stores), who paid her $20,000, and I. Miller (shoes), who paid her $2,500, for giving them advice on labor relations. The other $6,000 came from Nelson Rockefeller, for the same kind of advice and help on "speeches for graduation and commencement exercises...
...Copland dug into a Modern Library version of Abraham Lincoln's life and letters, and tried to write down his impressions in music. Jerome Kern thumbed through his Mark Twain first editions and manuscripts in his Beverly Hills library. Virgil Thomson spent two hours in Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's City Hall office in Manhattan, watched and jotted down music while the Mayor received visitors. He also spent a morning in Pundit Dorothy Thompson's library while she read and, after her fashion, meditated...
...Lincoln Portrait, a mixture of simplicity, tenderness and nobility; Kern's Portrait for Orchestra (Mark Twain), stringing out typically Kern melodies, portraying Mark Twain's humor in an impudent polka, his "gorgeous pilot house" in a broad andante cantabile; Thomson's brassy Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes and Canons for Dorothy Thompson...
Then last Dec. 1 a World War I flyer, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, then OCD director, announced the birth of the Civil Air Patrol. The Army hailed CAP as an aid to national defense...
...Although the LaGuardia administration has kicked out the spoils system and instituted competitive tests even for big jobs, most of the city's teachers hate Mayor LaGuardia. Reason: he annually cuts the school budget to the bone, has eliminated thousands of jobs. Today there are 2,000 fewer teachers than two years ago; in the budget for the coming year LaGuardia proposes not only to leave vacancies unfilled but for the first time to dismiss some 475 permanent appointees. The Mayor's point: enrollment in the city's schools has dropped nearly 150,000 in the last...