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...JOHN LINDSAY TOLD an outright lie last Wednesday after announcing to a city hall press conference that he would not be a candidate for re-election as mayor of New York City...
...borrowed the phrase "enough rope" from the title of a book of verse by Dorothy Parker. May sampled little of Parker's bittersweet wit, however, in constructing this glimpse of a bored, nervous girl who mimes her Judy Garland records to entertain herself. Only the precise direction by Lindsay Davis and the believable hysteria of Fran Davis, as the girl, Edith, save the play from coming off as a losing entry in a high school dramatic interp contest. Whether she is coating her mouth with red lipstick or trying to engage her neighbor Claude in conversation, Fran Davis evokes more...
...Terrible" Ted Lindsay minutes...
Mayor John Lindsay professed himself "dismayed"; Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy called the judge's ruling "a disgrace." Despite various legal maneuvers, however, Judge Wright held firm. "Bail is not a game of money to be won only by the rich," he said. "It is to assure appearance in court, and if the accused has roots in the community, then there is no [high] bail." Gruttola, the father of two, owns a home and runs a driving school and insurance business, and Wright refused to increase bail "simply because a public officer is the alleged victim...
PROBABLY THE MAIN contenders for the "second toughest job in America" are Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi and Comptroller Abe Beame. The Democratic organization in the city would like to recycle Beame, who lost narrowly to Lindsay in 1965, but there are real questions whether the diminutive 5'2" Beame can hold the Jewish vote. As Bronx Democratic leader Pat Cunningham told a Harvard professor last week. "Let's face it. Beame's big problem is that he's mediocre...