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MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST is being honored at the BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS with a major exhibition of his works. Over 150 watercolors, oils, monotypes, and sketch-books will be shown--many for the first time publicly...
Pacifying Guerrillas. For two years, New York's Democratic Party has been in a state of civil war, with the embattled regulars (Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, State Chairman Mike Prendergast) under heavy attack from such guerrillas as the reform liberals (headed by ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Thomas K. Finletter), disgruntled Negro groups (oriented toward Representative Adam Clayton Powell), and the traditionally anti-Tammany Liberal Party...
Making his Manhattan rounds, from a 9 a.m. appointment at Gracie Mansion with Mayor Robert Wagner, to lunch at Hampshire House with Prendergast and De Sapio, to a sundown session in Lehman's Park Avenue apartment, to a midnight dinner with Anthony Akers, perennial candidate for Congress in the rich, Republican, silk-stocking district of Manhattan, Bobby left no faction unfaced. His approach was friendly but firm...
...barricades and its vivid portraits of the ex-law student, tough café owner and religious fanatic who have defied the power of Charles de Gaulle. Taken together with the intimate account of the heart searchings of De Gaulle's government supplied by Paris Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and Godfrey Blunden, the result is a comprehensive assessment of a week in which only the stubbornness and vision of one man stood between France and disaster...
...Chicago, but Johnson did not really hit his stride until he got to New York, center of what he sometimes calls "Northern bigotry." There, in a 40-hour whirlwind, he shook the hands of all Democratic factotums and factions, talked tactical politics with New York State Chairman Michael Prendergast and Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio. He rubbed shoulders with Negro and white officials in a reception thrown by New York's Mayor Wagner, made a speech to the largest Roman Catholic men's club in Brooklyn, conferred with wealthy Wall Streeters, and in total, stomped a path that...