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When New York's Mayor Vincent Impellitteri got beaten in the Democratic primary last month by Robert F. Wagner, 43, son of the late Senator Robert F. (Wagner Act) Wagner, he simply re-oiled his rusty armor and re-entered the lists as an independent. Since Impy got to City Hall in the first place by dubbing himself Galahad and tilting against his old Tammany pals, it seemed that he might add at least a breath of humor to the big city's dreariest modern campaign. But last week Impy was waved off on a technicality without...
...That Boy." In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison. Said Wagner: "I call on the governor to deny that one of the men who tried to get Fay out of jail...
Dewey's closest political associates on the national scene . . ." With a typical retort, Governor Thomas E. Dewey promptly accepted the challenge. Said he: "Apparently Wagner is trying to charge that some member of the national Administration appealed to me unsuccessfully in the interest of Joseph Fay. I always thought the boy was stupid, but never before that he was crazy. No such appeal has ever been made to me by anyone connected with the national Administration...
That tossed the ball back to Wagner, who said: "Who is Governor Dewey trying to kid? I never said the appeal was made to him. I said it was made to the State Parole Board, which had refused to parole Fay last January." Alfred R. Loos, chairman of the parole board, challenged Wagner to make public the name of his "most important" man. Although the board's records are confidential, said Loos, he and other members would get to the facts after they got the name and would make a public statement...
...Promptly." This was a signal for Harold Riegelman, Republican candidate for mayor, to put Wagner on a really hot spot. Said Riegelman "Wagner could not go far in this campaign without revealing a reckless dishonesty and cowardice . . . He had better put up promptly or be forever branded as totally untrustworthy and unfit." This week Governor Dewey's counsel George M. Shapiro, wired Wagner: "Name . . . the alleged person or publicly retract...