Word: vincent
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...York's photogenic Mayor Vincent ("Impy") Impellitteri celebrated his 27th wedding anniversary by posing behind a double-deck cake with his wife Betty, and bussing her in a manner that would do him no harm in the city's forthcoming free-for-all mayoralty contest. That done, he and Betty, herself no slouch at politics, went off to the next event: opening up a "Women for Impy" headquarters...
...make their bow to Harlem's increasing voting strength. Last month they nominated independent Democrat Elmer A. Carter, 63, for eight years a member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, for the borough presidency of Manhattan, the city's most important county. Quickly, Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri's faction of New York's badly split Democrats selected Colonel Chauncey Hooper, 59, an assistant deputy comptroller of the city and a staff officer in the New York National Guard, for the same office. In a supporting speech, the mayor told Harlem voters that he hoped...
Wrecking the Party. The most obvious aspirant was Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri. Democrat Impellitteri, 53, is a likable, cigar-smoking politician who has been in his profession so long that even his casual conversations manage to sound like scraps from political speeches. In the 1950 elections, he bucked his own party machine and won, running as an independent on a ticket titled Experience Party. By now, with three years of distributing City Hall patronage behind him, he has considerable Democratic Party support...
FRANCE Positively In the uncontrovertible style of William Tecumseh Sherman's "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected,"* France's genial President Vincent Auriol, 68, last week put a crisp end to rumors that he would seek a second seven-year term this fall. "I will not be a candidate for my own succession, either in the third round of voting or the two hundredth," he said...
...Manhattan, for the second year in a row, the Harmon International Aviation Award for the year's outstanding performance by an aviatrix went to French Test Pilot Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of President Vincent Auriol. Her 1952 prizewinning feat: topping her own world's jet speed record for women by flying a 62-mile closed course at an average 531.843 m.p.h...