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Forsaking wrestling, homespun comedy, and a war movie on other channels, perhaps as many as 1,000,000 New Yorkers-an impressive 8.1 Nielsen rating-turned one evening last week to a political telecast that combined all three. After ten days of negotiations between staffs, Democratic Incumbent Robert F. Wagner and Republican Challenger Louis J. Lefkowitz met dais to dais in their campaign for mayor of New York...
Most New Yorkers have long since given up hope of ever having a ready effective city government; in the Wagner-Lefkowitz debate they neither expected nor got a serious discussion of municipal problems. But if the purpose of the debate was to project personalities, it was a considerable success. Manhattan-born Bob Wagner came across as a bland, coolly confident politician of the collar...
State Attorney General Lefkowitz* appeared¤ as an earnest candidate with a machine-gun style of indignant speech. Wagner, who won his primary victory last September by denouncing New York City's Democratic bosses, now aimed at pinning the boss tag on Lefkowitz. Republican Lefkowitz, on the other hand, simply wanted to make it clear he thought Wagner...
...Mayor Robert Wagner's chicanery a la king luncheon . . ." See PEOPLE...
...Simple Thing. In jaded New York, where the arrival of autumn serves mainly to announce one more World Series (25 pennants are draped on the walls of Yankee Stadium), news of the Yankees' victory was accepted serenely. Mayor Robert F. Wagner planned a ticker-tape parade, but the idea was promptly vetoed by the businesslike Yankee front office. "Too many things have to be done," explained a Yankee spokesman. Hard-shelled Ralph ("The Major") Houk, 42, who won a pennant in his first year as a big league manager, had a disarmingly simple explanation for his success. "Really, this...