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...against Rocky. Up went a trial balloon for respected Appellate Division Justice Bernard Botein; it roused little interest, and down it came. Then Harris, as the acknowledged working head of a Democratic group that includes ex-Senator Herbert Lehman, 84, Tammany Leader Ed Costikyan (successor to Carmine De Sapio) and assorted liberal lawyers and public relations men, began promoting Robert Morgenthau...
...parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes. He sold his busi ness and moved to Phoenix. Some time in the next two years...
...annual banquet, and the first man on his feet was Bob Hope. He was in top form, and when he sat down again, Hope left the old footballers weak with laughter. "Things have changed," he said. "I took a cab from the hotel to come here, and Carmine De Sapio was driving it." Then he turned to the young collegian award winners and barked out a command: "Students out there, stand by! You could be in the next Cabinet! If you'd come from Harvard, you'd be in tomorrow!" With a bow to the honor guest...
Career's End. De Sapio's forebodings were well taken. Election Day was pleasantly mild-just the sort of weather to attract voters-and colorless Candidate Levitt's chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt...
...Tammany's De Sapio, last week's primary spelled the end of a long career as a political leader. Manhattan went for Wagner by an overwhelming 122,000 votes against 67,000. De Sapio himself was defeated in his race for leader in his own district by James Lanigan, 43, a lawyer and a good friend of such reform-minded Democrats as Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman and Adlai Stevenson...