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Teen Pan Alley. Born in The Bronx and raised in Los Angeles, Spector (his real name) played jazz guitar in nightclubs during his high school years. At 17, inspired by the inscription on his father's tombstone, he wrote his first song, To Know Him, Is to Love Him. It sold 1,200,000 copies and has become an alltime teen classic. Phil marked time for two years working as a court stenotypist. Then, at 19, he moved to Manhattan and tried to crash "Teen Pan Alley" only to discover that "95% of the music business is heavily infiltrated...
...York. A frequent visitor to the Attorney General's office in Washington, he was the first to urge Kennedy's Senate race. Peter Crotty, Erie's leader and the chief up-state coalition member, stood in 1961 as Kennedy's candidate for New York Democratic State Chairman. The Bronx's aging Charles Buckley, once a business associate of Joseph Kennedy, was President Kennedy's earliest supporter in New York, a staunch foe of Mayor Wagner, and one of Bobby's strongest allies. These men formed the cadre of Kennedy's strength in New York and the nucleus of the Albany...
Military Jujitsu. Professional patriots have always been fair game for satire but few books have ever given them a lustier Bronx cheer than Joseph Heller's sprawling, farcical Catch-22. Yossarian, the Air Corps bombardier who doesn't want to fly any more missions for the mordantly sane reason that he might get killed, is a comic creation that has already become something of a classic. In typical black-humor fashion, Yossarinan's real adversary is nothing less than the whole mad, mucked-up system, the jujitsu with which the bombardier repeatedly sets the system...
...Lords. The anti-Wagner coalition is composed of city and county Democratic bosses whom Wagner antagonized in 1961 by his celebrated and rather sudden stance of fighting for reform and against boss rule. These war lords include Charles Buckley of The Bronx, Peter Crotty of Buffalo and Stanley Steingut of Brooklyn. Last fall this coalition forced Wagner to accept Bobby Kennedy's candidacy for the Senate...
Struggle. In a sense, it was only the latest round of the notorious fight between New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and his old foe, Bronx Boss Charles Buckley. What made the battle intriguing to political fight fans far beyond the borders of New York State was the fact that Buckley is an ally of Bobby Kennedy's and backed him for Senator when Wagner was still trying to keep Bobby out of the state-suggesting that the real struggle may be between Kennedy and Wagner over eventual control of New York...