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Massive (6 ft., 240 Ibs.) Henry B. Krajewski of Secaucus, N.J. has a five-acre farm with 4,000 pigs, a flourishing saloon ("Tammany Hall Tavern") and political ambitions. Last week Krajewski, a black & white pig under one arm, a petition with 1,136 signatures under the other, strode into...
But for all his vigor before the television cameras, Morris left his interview with the President with a chastened look. Asked what Truman had told him, he refused to say, crying: "No, no, capital NO. I'm a guy who talks too much. I'm well known from...
The Cow Is Our Mother. Against such popular appeal, the snarling Communist and the colorless Congress Party candidates who opposed the Maharaja stood little chance. But the Maharaja had a few Tammany-style tricks up his sleeve as well. "In Bombay," he told his audience, "Congress is permitting the erection...
In New York City, Rudolph Halley, former Kefauver committee counsel, proved again that the once fearsome Tammany tiger is just a tired, sick old cat. Registration was low and the voting turnout was worse, conditions under which any vigorous political machine should be able to count on victory. But not...
Died. John P. (for Patrick) O'Brien, 78, genial figurehead of New York's Tammany Hall machine, who filled in as the Democrats' mayor of New York (1932-33) when Jimmy Walker quit under pressure; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The prototype of Novelist Joel Sayre's...