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Thomas K. (for Knight) Finletter, U.S. Ambassador to NATO. A New York lawyer and investment banker from Philadelphia, urbane Tom Finletter, 63, has spread his interests from foreign affairs and defense down to local politics. He was a consultant to the U.S. delegation at the early U.N. meetings in San...
Even at that price, the magazine is a bargain. Along with a faithful chronicle of the Civil War, its reprint readers will get a healthy dose of contemporary literature, including serial installments of Dickens' Great Expectations. If the resurrection outlasts the Civil War period (the weekly died in 1916...
Promised Purge. New York's Democratic Party has been torn asunder since the state convention of 1958. Principal ripper was National Committeeman Carmine Gerard De Sapio, the dark-spectacled Tammany Hall sachem who outraged most fellow Democrats and voters by dictating the selection of the party's candidate...
Within weeks after the election, word went out from the Kennedys that De Sapio & Co. must go. To take the teeth out of the Tammany tiger, the Kennedys cut off De Sapio's federal patronage. Run-of-the-mill jobs are now being dispensed through Congressman Eugene Keogh of...
While the tigers of Tammany battled with the lions of reform, Republicans watched the spectacle with unmitigated glee. Said Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater to a Washington audience: "In a savage civil war now raging in New York State between the forces of Carmine De Sapio and the agrarian...