Word: fiorello
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...mayor's desk was originally used by Fiorello La Guardia. It had to be raised for Koch, who is almost a foot taller than the only predecessor of whom he speaks admiringly ?partly for his ideas, partly for his fame. Raised now, the desk is a bit too high for Koch, thus giving symbolic pleasure to those who think that the current mayor cannot hold a candle to the Little Flower...
...earlier, more impish days, TIME, inspired by Homer's "wine-dark sea," fastened labels on everything in sight and endlessly repeated them. New York's mayor was always "fireplug-shaped Fiorello La Guardia"; the city's newspaper, in a phrase that combined admiration with gentle sarcasm, was "the good gray New York Times." So familiar was this practice that Johnny Mercer parodied it in a Broadway show tune, Affable, Balding Me. TIME'S double-barreled labels came to a quiet end when a later managing editor, T.S. Matthews, forbade the use of them unless a writer...
...fairly judged in a year or so, perhaps after Koch balances the city budget, as he has loudly and frequently promised. At present he is little more than halfway through his term. While there is no question that he is the most colorful mayor the city has seen since Fiorello La Guardia (1934-45), the hard issues he faces will not be resolved by style...
...even though just now in August the island of Manhattan is many tons lighter because most of its psychiatrists have gone to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons on Long Island. There seems a bit less of the manic energy that existed in the 1930s when, for example, Fiorello La Guardia raced to the Bronx Terminal Market at 6:30 in the morning with a pair of buglers to announce that he was banning the public sale of artichokes because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters. But New York, as always, is a state of mind...
Mayor Ed Koch stood on his dignity and declined to read the funnies over the air as Fiorello La Guardia had done during a New York City newspaper strike 33 years earlier. No matter. Soupy Sales and Eartha Kitt read Doonesbury and other comic strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group...