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Next day Van piled into an open car and drove in a tickertape-strewn motorcade up Broadway behind three high school bands. At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner produced a scroll proclaiming "Van Cliburn Day," while teen-agers and office workers milled about gawking at Van ("He's cuter than Tony Perkins...
...Leonard W. Hall, 57, for Governor and trying to divert Manhattan Millionaire Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 49, from his persistent but unannounced interest in the Governor's chair to an interest in Irving Ives's Senate seat. Possible Democratic Senate contenders: New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner, onetime Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and New York District Attorney Frank Hogan. Strongest of the three is Wagner, who swept back into city hall last November with the largest plurality ever granted a New York mayor, still wants to follow his father into the Senate, was defeated...
Released by New York City Comptroller Lawrence Gerosa last week with the approval, but obviously not the best wishes, of Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner: a report, described by Democrat Gerosa as dynamite, adding a new chapter to the city's corruption-afflicted history. Private contractors doing business with the city's Bureau of Real Estate, said Gerosa, have been overcharging for years. In twelve months alone. Gerosa's accountants discovered $200,000 in overcharges. Even before Gerosa released his report, seven top officials of the Real Estate Bureau had resigned, been dismissed or suspended. But the real...
...Tris Speaker, 3,515; Honus Wagner, 3,430; Eddie Collins, 3,313; Nap Lajoie, 3,251; Paul Waner, 3,152; Cap Anson...
...awaits graduation, Mr. Eyre paddles about the Square with a curious stagger, poking in and out of book shops and record stores, where he is known for his excellent taste and frequent purchases ("I wave a flag for Wagner and Richard Strauss."). During working hours, he has handy a large green bottle of ginger ale, which Frankie, a Boston cab driver who is often at his side, manages somehow to keep cold. Mr. Eyre seldom retires until past dawn and normally is not seen about until well past time for luncheon...