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...guest was a pollster who had just completed a postcard survey, ordered by De Sapio, as to the presidential preferences of Democratic voters in New York state. De Sapio places great stock in his polls, used them to confirm his choices of Robert Wagner (over Vincent Impellitteri) for mayor of New York City in 1953, and of Harriman (over Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) for governor in 1954. Says De Sapio: "You can't impose your will on the people any more. If they select the candidate in a poll, they'll elect him." De Sapio's surveys...
Sheriff Finn wangled De Sapio a job as secretary to City Judge Vincent S. Lippe at $3,500 a year, and that put De Sapio in a position to marry Theresa Natale (her friends call her Tess, her husband calls her "Girlie"), a pretty secretary from Hoboken whom he had met at a dance several years before. By now, De Sapio was obviously a rising young pol, and Sheriff Finn, a pallid imitation of tough old Battery Dan, was on the skids. In 1939, egged on by Huronites dissatisfied with Finn's sorry leadership, De Sapio founded...
...Sapio's shaky perch slavered a whole litter of lesser tigers just waiting for him to make his first slip. He slipped, and soon. With Flynn, he supported Judge Ferdinand Pecora, an honest man cursed with every outward attribute of the typical Tammany stooge, against a Tammany outcast. Vincent Impellitteri, who looked to the voters like a brave little David slinging stones at a Goliath. "Impy," without machine support, won easily. Never had Tammany Hall suffered a more galling defeat. De Sapio was on the way out; at one point he managed to hold on by only two committee...
Elsewhere in the series. Concerto for Piano-Four Hands, by Philadelphia's Teacher-Composer Vincent Persichetti, starts off in a tortured, plodding style, goes on to crank out some astonishing, dervish-like activity. Lilacs and Portals, by one of the "bad boys" of the '20s, Carl Ruggles (played by the Juilliard String Orchestra), are handsome but dated experiments in sound combinations. Since Columbia can hardly expect to show a profit on this series anyway, it seems a shame it does not grit its worthy teeth and bring out at least a few samples of really controversial music...
Other SI stories made their impact, too. At a party meeting, President Ike Eisenhower recalled the SI story about the atheist who didn't care who won the Notre Dame-S.M.U. game, and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale began one of his Sunday sermons: "There is a new magazine, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, that has in this week's issue a story on the use of prayer...