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Robert Wagner, Democrat-Liberal, was elected mayor in 1953 and re-elected in 1957, both times under the sponsorship of the Democratic organization bosses he is now attacking. His first term was plodding; his second has been studded with proliferating scandals: inadequate or nonexistent school maintenance, graft in the real...
Typical of the board was its method of choosing a chief administrator in 1958. Instead of scouring the nation, the board stopped at the office of then Deputy Mayor Theobald. A former president of Queens College, he qualified as an educator, but more obviously as a politician. Also symptomatic was...
Hardly had Wagner picked his ticket when the bosses he had defied selected their own slate, dared him to enter a bloody September primary. The Tammany organization's choice for mayor: State Controller Arthur Levitt, 61, a respected vote getter ever since he survived Nelson Rockefeller's 1958...
Ragtag Army. Dumped by the regular Democratic organization, Wagner is desperately shopping for influential backers. But so far he has produced only former Senator Herbert Lehman, avuncular head of a small reform Democrat movement. James A. Farley, far removed from the inner circles of New York politics, and blustering Mike...
Peering around at a Times Square depopulated by the nationwide civil defense alert last week (see cut), New York's Mayor Robert Wagner appeared wan and haggard. Wagner recently underwent an operation for a nonmalignant tumor, but his troubled look could have had another cause. With his political future...