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...Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey and The Bronx' Charles Buckley. For this belated display of courage, Wagner earned the endorsement of the New York Times, which admitted that his administration has been "shot through with an accumulation of defects and scandals." But, said the Times, Wagner was unlike Levitt in that he was at least "free of the old clubhouse control." The Republican New York Herald Tribune noted the endorsement "with puzzlement" under the editorial headline: OH, COME NOW, NEW YORK TIMES...
...Arthur Levitt, Democrat, ran for a second term as state controller in 1958-and was the only Democrat to win statewide office in Nelson Rockefeller's Republican sweep. With that credential as a vote getter, and as a down-the-line party regular, Levitt was the organization leaders' logical choice to buck Wagner in the primary. Accepting the bosses' decision, Levitt amiably announced that he had received a popular "mandate." Where Wagner's platform style is spare and uninspired, Levitt's is florid and uninspired...
Facing up to the horrendous choice between New York City's three Democratic candidates for mayor, the Pied Piper of Harlem, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, bestowed his anxiously awaited blessing on Organization Man Arthur Levitt. "New York City," prophesied the apocalyptic Adam, "is absolutely finished if affable, personable, charming, likeable, ineffective, weak Bob Wagner is returned to office...
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...