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New York's Democratic chieftains made few headlines last May when they picked Arthur Klein as their candidate for Manhattan surrogate, a job rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61...
Pocket of Hostility. Abruptly, this routine transaction became big news. Political purists of varying degrees of sincerity howled that Klein's joint nomination could be nothing but a deal between spoils-hungry bosses of both parties. The situation was machine-made for Senator Robert F. Kennedy's benefit...
No man was ever purer than Adhemar de Barros. His jutting profile, immense belly, and expansive grandstand manner were pure Falstaff. His snake-charming baritone and God-fearing homilies were pure medicine show. His pork-barrel pilfering as three-time Governor of São Paulo, Latin America's...
Sir: The spontaneous and sensitive painting of David Merrick is a delight. SERENE FELDMAN SUSAN TAMMANY Syracuse
Lehman, 46, has no need of borrowed names. Grandnephew of the late Herbert Lehman, who as financier, philanthropist, Governor and Senator made the name part of New York lore, Orin took up the family's anti-Tammany tradition last fall when he ran against the organization in a primary...