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Mostly his enemies in the party remembered Jimmy's attempt to dump Harry Truman in favor of Eisenhower at Philadelphia last year. "We can't very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name Roosevelt means something. The people here will fill a ballpark to see a Roosevelt-or a Clark Gable or a Lana Turner, of a Frankenstein. But they won't vote for them." Most of the Truman professionals preferred California's E. George Luckey, the swashbuckling Imperial Valley cattleman...
...brought to New York when he was four; his father opened a hole-in-the-wall grocery on East 108th Street, and he was exposed early.to the neighborhood heroes: the torpedoes who worked for Giro Terranova, red-handed boss of the Unione Siciliana in Harlem and The Bronx...
...beyond Suzanne's horizon, in Canada, The Bronx, West Virginia and Montmartre, bustling, hopeful, confident people were ordering their lives and dreams to fit the big plane's movements. In The Bronx, motherly Mrs. Raoul Silbernagel was busily planning a welcome-home party for her husband, who had been in Europe for three weeks on business. Cesia Lowenstein had only just returned to her Manhattan apartment after divorcing her husband, Ernest, in Reno, but she too was preparing a welcome. "Ernest was always away on business," she explained. "I couldn't follow him abroad because I wanted...
...denial went unnoticed, Rader took another step: he started perjury proceedings against Witness Hewitt. But while a deputy prosecutor cooled his heels outside the offices of the Canwell committee (named for ex-State Representative Albert F. Canwell), Hewitt was packed aboard a plane for New York. There, a Bronx court refused to extradite him. Though Rader continued to teach at the University of Washington, his reputation was blasted...
Died. Richard (Dick) Rudolph, 62, star righthanded pitcher of the 1914 Boston Braves; of a heart ailment; in The Bronx. Spearheaded by Spitballer Rudolph's 27 victories (twelve of them consecutive), the Braves zoomed from last place on July 4th to win the National League pennant, the World Series (in four games), and the historic title "Miracle Team...