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Most of the time, a New York City municipal election has all the suspense and flavor of lunch at the automat-deposit the votes and out pops another machine-tooled Democrat. But two-term Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has jammed the mechanism by breaking openly with the Democratic bosses (TIME...
In four scattered locations across the U.S. last week, terror struck suddenly. ¶Floating half submerged in a tiny Fairfax County, Va., stream, the nude body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and...
Almost unknown in the world of scholarship, Gollwitzer was emerging as a man after Neutralist Barth's own heart, whether or not Basel's nervous municipal authorities, who have the final say, decide to swallow their unease. "Gollwitzer," said one Barthian, "is not out to support those who...
Hemphill's investigations of the city government's spending and ethical practices at first seemed to be digging up only small potatoes: a Dilworth appointee was discovered holding two jobs; municipal employees were seen at a race track when they were supposed to be at work; city truck...
After Hemphill made his first big exposures, it seemed that nearly everybody in Philadelphia wanted to get into the act. The local press gleefully joined the chase, rocked the city with new revelations of corruption. The Republican Alliance, a G.O.P. reform group, hired three professional investigators to uncover more scandals...