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...museum." At Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Foreign Affairs Expert Boris Romanovich Izakov, who is on the editorial board of the monthly International Life, pointed out that Moscow University has 1,800 journalism students-all with free tuition. At Manhattan's City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner carefully explained how the city is governed by people of various cultures, creeds and colors. Izakov scored a point, saying: "Good coexistence...
...favorite church music as "unliturgical." The cardinal's authority: Pope Pius X (1903-14), who, in his encyclical Motu Proprio, cited "sanctity and goodness of form" as necessary to sacred music. Among the forbidden titles, many of which have also been banned in other dioceses: the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, originally written for the theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo; and Bach-Gounod's (the Bach original was a clavier prelude, later adapted...
...week, a peak of service which is unparalleled in any city in our nation ... It might also interest you to know that a recent survey by scientists shows that the air in New York City is adjudged the second cleanest of the cities of our nation . . . ROBERT F. WAGNER Mayor New York City...
From this assessment came the postcard polls, the dogged rectitude, the organizational reforms, the constant salesmanship-and, most important, the elections of Bob Wagner as mayor and Averell Harriman as governor...
...used to pass around food baskets and coal buckets, De Sapio's Tammany makes public-minded donations to blood banks. Where the old bosses packed the City Hall with hoodlums and hacks, De Sapio helps to find good men-Tammany men, that is-to work in Mayor Robert Wagner's administration. Says Wagner: "I have never made any commitments to Carmine." Then he adds: "Of course, it's often good to get his reaction to an appointment because his advice is usually good." Where the old bosses chewed cigars in back rooms, De Sapio sees himself...