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...city with the greatest concentration of Jews in the world has elected its first Jewish mayor. And, more importantly, for the first time in the last three tries. New York has elected a man who came up through the ranks of one of the city's established Democratic organizations: Abe Beame, a 67-year old Brooklyn man, now the city's Comptroller...
Still it is unclear whether Abe Beame will do much to help New York. He was elected as a caretaker, a man to try to keep politics off the TV news, with a face that won't interfere with the commercials when he fails. A city like New York, seemingly lurching in every direction at once without an apparent plan, needs more than a caretaker. Beame's combination of cautious administration and the meticulous pluralism called for by his organizational base will lock his administration into the same types of solutions that failed in the past, the blind...
...Abe Beame has adopted the world view of the machine politician; he is the reflection of the political organization's view of the electorate. He is conservative and frugal, hopefully competent and hard-working. This is the view that convinced McGovern that he had to turn to the right in the midst of his 1972 campaign, and this is the view that induced Herman Badillo to make a television commercial in the middle of his run-off battle with Beame showing him proudly parading in front of his expensive home in Riverdale (an exclusive section of the Bronx), trying...
...book, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, is about a Save-A-Soul Missionary's (Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost...
While clearly petty compared with the political-corruption charges, such gifts do raise serious ethical questions. President Eisenhower's top aide, Sherman Adams, resigned in 1958 after it became known he had accepted gifts including a vicuna coat from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 from the Supreme Court when it was revealed that he had accepted $20,000 from a foundation headed by Financier Louis Wolfson, for which he was an adviser...