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...already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that operates from a city pier. One commission finding: Sanders paid "several hundred dollars" for Wagner's hotel suite political headquarters at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles last July. Outraged, Wagner denied that he had ever done any favors for Sanders (whose lease on the pier is not being renewed), charged that the probe...
...Catholic benefit auction in New York. She showed up fashionably late for the opening night of the Washington Opera Society season, arm in arm with Adlai Stevenson and a daughter of Konrad Adenauer, and she announced that she had discovered, hidden away in White House storage, a gilt pier table ordered by James Monroe...
...such a view is by no means universally held. Another long-time denizen of the pier protested vigorously when we suggested that T Wharf once had the reputation of being a center for Bohemians. "That depends on what you mean by Bohemian," she said. "Sure, we used to do some funny things. Like once we all got dressed up in fancy costumes and walked from the Wharf clear up to Scollay into a Hayes-Bick. But they wouldn't serve us. Well, then, when the Megansett Junior Tea Room was out at number 22-23 on the Wharf, we used...
None of this particularly bothers the residents. If the tide keeps them from driving onto the pier, they just row--right into their hallway if necessary. But it does bother the Quincy Market people, who claim the wharf, though presently safe, is fast deteriorating. In fact, says Mr. Love, the Market quite recently had to close up a couple of hazardous apartments...
...added, "spending $250,000 on renovating a pier which will never repay our capital expenditure can't be worth while to a company which is operating on stockholders' money. We just can't afford to save the Wharf for wholly sentimental reasons." Even raising the present $55 to $95 rents 100 per cent (which most tenants would be willing to accept) could not cover the costs of repair, said Mr. Love...