Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slipping on a tan raincoat and battered fedora, Pittsburgh's Mayor David Leo Lawrence last week climbed into a borrowed Oldsmobile, drove through the steel city's uncertain October weather to campaign for reelection. Like the shrewd old political boss that he is, "King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free...
...municipal jobs, keeps tight rein on a nine-man city council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have given precious little support to his opponent in next week's election, former Common Pleas Judge John Drew...
Bipartisan Burst. Dave Lawrence began his political schooling early. His teamster father was Democratic chairman of lower Pittsburgh's tough Third Ward. At 14 young Dave landed his first job: office boy to Democratic City Chairman William J. Brennan. Lawrence became Allegheny County chairman at 31, discovered that in Republican Pennsylvania the prestige was hollow. When Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt rolled into the White House, Democrat Dave Lawrence rolled into statewide power, dragging with him his own candidate for governor, Businessman George H. Earle...
...staged U.S. premiere of Francis Poulenc's religious opera, The Carmelites (TIME, Feb. 11), and Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes as serious as Salome, sometimes as raffish as Rosenkavalier. With Soprano Rysanek in the title role and Pittsburgh's Conductor William Steinberg in the pit, the production was a triumph...
...York City alone there were an estimated 500 exhibitions of paintings by Americans. This fall's season is opening with a widespread and impressive array of U.S. interest. The Cincinnati Art Museum is featuring an exhibition of 20th century U.S. realism which it calls "An American Viewpoint"; Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute has hung 121 works in its "American Classics of the 19th Century"; Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is about to inaugurate an enlarged American wing; the Brooklyn Museum is preparing "The Face of America," an exhibition of portraits from all periods. This week Manhattan's Wildenstein...