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...spattered by scandal. His lurching efforts to satisfy all of New York City's warring Democratic factions have satisfied none. He recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor behind the ear, and his health remains dubious. Last week, pale and drawn as he attended a Democratic banquet honoring Bronx Boss Charles Buckley, Wagner ate nothing, stayed only 17 minutes, then announced that he had to go home...
...G.O.P. search after Javits' withdrawal, the name of Paul Fino, 47, five-term Republican Congressman from the Democratic Bronx, was proposed. Sniffed one Republican: "Who the hell is Fino?" Also mentioned were: New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, 56, who has never run for important elective office; Representative John Lindsay, 39, an attractive, consistent vote getter from Manhattan's Silk Stocking District; and Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Nelson Rockefeller's four brothers. But Whitney, Lindsay and David Rockefeller were all reluctant to make the attempt...
...most difficult subjects ("The only possible way to get an alligator to cut loose is by tooting a B-flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something out of Frank Buck...
...stems which root freely at the nodes" sneaked in. How it made the trip is a mystery. Perhaps, many years ago, it stole out of some Portuguese garden into the sea, and, just following its nodes, crept along the ocean floor like a living cable till it reached The Bronx. Not satisfied there, it moved on to plague the rest of the nation. This week Suburbia is again on Green Alert as the warming land sends crab grass busting...
...status-conscious neighbors decided that this was going too far, and slapped him with a lawsuit for violating a neighborhood compact whose fine print requires that lawns and gardens be kept "in a good and husbandlike manner." None of this would have happened if only somebody in The Bronx had been more alert in the first place...