Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YDCHR will present the Hon. Robert F. Wagner, Mayor of New York, speaking on the Supreme Court Re-Districting Decision and New York politics, at 8 p.m. tonight, Quincy House Dining Room...
...week the New York Times solemnly reported on Page One the fact that an unnamed pollster (it was, in fact, Lou Harris, who has made a profitable career out of conducting polls for Democratic hopefuls) had just completed a survey indicating that New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner could beat Republican Nelson Rockefeller for Governor this year. The poll showed Wagner leading Rocky by 43% to 41%, with 16% undecided...
According to one recent study. New York City should be spending twice as much on schools. But a new board of education (the old one was deposed last year after school construction scandals) is stymied. Mayor Robert F. Wagner proposes to spend $525 million for fiscal 1962-63, a gain of only $69 million, which precludes big pay raises. When the union balked last week, Wagner suddenly charged Governor Nelson Rockefeller with trimming expected state aid. Teachers, feeling trapped in a politicians' squabble, got angrier yet. Not until after the strike did Rockefeller find an extra $13 million...
Think Big. Lou Harris is the man who last year advised New York's Wagner that the way to beat the organization candidate in the Democratic primary was to campaign against "bossism" (Wagner did just that). This year Harris has private political polls planned or under way in 30 states. Among his current clients: California's Governor Pat Brown, running for re-election against Richard Nixon; Philadelphia's ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, running for Governor of Pennsylvania (TIME, March 9). Most of Harris' political clients are Democrats - 80% ac cording to Harris, virtually 100% according...
...Trojans (TIME, June 17, 1957). A firm believer in the equal importance of acting and singing. Vickers is passionate and convincing as Otello, Don Jose in Carmen, Florestan in Fidelio and Siegmund in Die Walkure. His big, shining voice, surging over the orchestra, would seem ideal for Wagner, but Vickers is in no hurry to become a Heldentenor. "I love Wagner," says he, "but I want to sing for 25 years, not ten. German exploits the voice." Many of his colleagues apparently share his feeling: no truly great Heldentenor has appeared since Melchior retired (although the Hungarian Sandor Konya shows...