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...Balkan refugees spilling out of revolution-torn Europe. In 1885 the Statue of Liberty was going up on Bedloe's Island, with its message of compassion and hope to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. Among those to land in New York that year was Robert Ferdinand Wagner, a stocky German eight-year-old whose name was to become famous in his adopted land. Lifting his eyes toward Liberty some two years later was Morris Javits, a 23-year-old Austrian Rabbinical student who became a New York pants-maker and, later, a tenement-house janitor...
...election year 1956, two of the major figures on that tapestry are New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr., the only son of Immigrant Bob Wagner, and New York's Republican Attorney General Jacob Koppel Javits, a son of Immigrant Morris Javits. They have been nominated by their parties to run for the place of retiring Democratic Senator Herbert H. Lehman-and the Wagner-Javits pursuit of New York's polyglot vote involves more nuances, more subtleties, more campaigning and more voters than any other of this year's 36 contests for control...
...GRETCHEN WAGNER Columbus, Ohio...
Rumors from a Democrat. For the Republicans, the problem was to find a candidate as well known in the state as Bob Wagner. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall have so far said no. That left State Attorney General Jacob K. Javits, four times a New York Congressman and the only Republican to win statewide office in '54. Jack Javits was willing and eager, but there were some counts against him. Some state G.O.P. leaders felt that his congressional record had been too "liberal." Moreover, there...
Ahead of His Time. Between 1594 and 1611, Gesualdo published six books of madrigals that contain such daring harmony and such sensitivity that many historians consider him centuries ahead of his time, see in him a musical contemporary of Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated...