Word: levitts
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Hardly had Wagner picked his ticket when the bosses he had defied selected their own slate, dared him to enter a bloody September primary. The Tammany organization's choice for mayor: State Controller Arthur Levitt, 61, a respected vote getter ever since he survived Nelson Rockefeller's 1958 Republican blitz into Albany. Levitt is a product of New York schools, from P.S. 19 to Columbia University; he served on the board of education before running for controller, and has won bipartisan praise for cautiously watchdogging state funds...
Sinister Evil. Wagner wasted no time labeling the Levitt choice as "a gang-up of callous political bosses headed by Carmine De Sapio," warned of "sinister evil" if Levitt were elected. What the mayor forgot was that he himself had also been a De Sapio selection (TIME cover, Oct. 1, 1956) and that there has been a lot of evil in the city under Bumbling Bob. Wagner's administration, among its many scandals, has been graced by a city purchasing agent who milked the city of $500,000 through rigged bidding on rock salt. Currently the city is flinching...
...produced only former Senator Herbert Lehman, avuncular head of a small reform Democrat movement. James A. Farley, far removed from the inner circles of New York politics, and blustering Mike Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union. With such a ragtag army, Wagner is almost sure to lose to Levitt if he insists on entering the Democratic primary. But the mayor is also the Liberal Party candidate, and can run on the Liberal ticket in the general election. At that time voters will have to make their choice from a list including not only Wagner and Levitt, but also Republican...
...Broadway The Andersonville Trial. With overtones of Nuremberg, the play re-creates the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the camp for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. Playwright Saul Levitt ultimately fails to search out the moral issue he raises; but the courtroom battle, theatrically charged by Director Jose Ferrer, makes a better-than-average evening of theater...
...Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director Jose Ferrer recreate the war-criminal trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious Civil War prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although somewhat forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...