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...force-Rose Kennedy, the President's mother; the Castoria heiress Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the indomitable Alice Roosevelt Longworth-along with such assorted guests from other fields as Pundit Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party was in honor of Governor Luis Muňoz Marin and his wife, there was a sprinkling of Puerto Ricans, including Mayoress Doňa Felisa Rincón de Gautier of San Juan...
Failure to Impress. Wagner had to work uncommonly hard for his third term. A docile favorite of Tammany Hall during his first seven years, Wagner this year annoyed the bosses by picking his own-and abler-running mates: Civil Servants Abraham Beame for controller, Paul Screvane for council president. For that effrontery, Wagner had to defeat State Controller Arthur Levitt, the bosses' choice, in a primary to win the Democratic nomination. But the primary gave Wagner what he badly needed: an issue. Ignoring the past, the mayor promised to put an end to "boss rule" if reelected, vowed...
...least to come close. But even in defeat, Republicans, long lacking an effective city organization, had some reason to feel encouraged by the outcome. Lefkowitz, polling 836,553 votes, did better than expected and carried ten of 65 assembly districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican Joseph F. Periconi won the borough presidency from a hand-picked candidate of Congressman Charles Buckley, most puissant of the Democratic bosses. In the 25-man city council...
Unable to Count. Victory presumably made Bob Wagner undisputed leader of New York State's Democrats, gives him the chance to heal the canyon-sized breach between the organization regulars and the Herbert Lehman-Eleanor Roosevelt reformers who backed him against the bosses.* Wagner's probable first move: replacing State Chairman Michael Prendergast, who openly backed Gerosa. Since the voters also approved a drastic reform in the city charter. Wagner will have far more control of city affairs than ever before, might be able to achieve a measure of administrative efficiency...
...really counting on that. New York was still the same ungovernable New York-and Bob Wagner was still Bob Wagner...