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World Music Festivals (Sun. 2 :30 p.m., CBS). Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded at Bayreuth...
Publisher Gaines had another reason for stopping his horror comics. New York's Mayor Robert Wagner recently ordered the city's lawyers to get injunctions banning the worst books under the state's obscenity laws. But many a community has already learned that comic books cannot be easily legislated off the newsstands. Five years ago New York's Governor Dewey vetoed a bill banning them on the ground that it was unconstitutional. Los Angeles County passed a similar law, only to have it knocked out by the courts. Nevertheless, in Oklahoma City, the city council recently...
Last January, Dewey ordered a series of seven monthly public-opinion polls. How would he run against Averell Harriman, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Robert Wagner Jr.? Far more important, how would Irving Ives-the only man Dewey had even considered as his successor-do against the three most likely Democratic candidates? The polls told Dewey what he wanted to know: either Ives or he could win over any Democratic opposition. In some of the surveys Ives ran even better than Dewey...
Power in the Rooms. Around the edges were two other big names. New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner, another junior, kept saying that he was not a candidate for governor; he wants to follow his father's footsteps to the U.S. Senate. But some Democrats kept insisting that he will be drafted. Sitting on the sidelines was the onetime master strategist, former Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley. Considered too conservative by New York Fair Dealers, Farley had little chance to be the candidate, but probably will play a role at the convention...
...thing, his three eldest sons (by a first marriage) resent having to work for their tough old man; further, like almost everybody else in the area, they resent Tracy's second wife, a loving, stoical, full-blooded Indian princess (Katy Jurado). and their half-breed brother (Robert Wagner), who is also papa...