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...announcement came after three months of hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City Council President Abe Stark and Controller Lawrence Gerosa as incompetent. New York's Liberal Party-a powerful third force in New York politics-also demanded that Stark and Gerosa be left off the ticket. But Wagner was under equally strong pressure from regular party leaders to keep...
Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abe Ribicoff, long a crusader for traffic safety, is urging teen-age girls to cool off male hot-rodders by refusing to date them. "You young girls can help a lot" he said to 30 touring high schoolers from Vero Beach, Fla. "This one-arm driving doesn't do any good either...
President Eisenhower "nearly proved Abe ," Washington columnist Drew Pearson told an audience last night. He claimed Eisenhower that "you can fool all of the people--for at least years...
During the worst part of his harassment by Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Council members, "the only people in Savannah who were of comfort were three Protestant ministers," Eisenman related. "The police would say, 'You're a good guy, Abe, and you shouldn't take up for niggers...
...make people laugh if they feel sorry for you." Dick Gregory handles it right, because clearly he is not sorry for himself, as when he cracks about his politics: "To be honest, I'm really for Abraham Lincoln. If it hadn't been for Abe, I'd still be on the open market...