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Despite its long history of rancorous race relations, Detroit in recent years has been one of the few big Northern cities to escape large-scale Negro rioting. The distinction was not won by accident - unless that accident is Jerome Cavanagh, the outsider who in 1961 toppled an arteriosclerotic regime to become Detroit's nonpartisan mayor...
Last week, with support from every major element in the city, Cavanagh, 37, won an overwhelming primary victory that all but assures his re-election in November...
...Cavanagh was helped into office initially by Detroit's half million Negroes, who were bitterly resentful of shoddy treatment by previous administrations and rough handling by a virtually all-white police force. His first step as mayor was to make a humanitarian Michigan Supreme Court Justice his police commissioner. The city began hiring and promoting more Negro police, integrated two-man patrol cars for the first time; and the police commissioner supervised meetings with Negro groups to discuss police problems. Cavanagh appointed a Negro city controller, highest appointive office ever held by a Negro in Detroit...
...local Scillonian Club are feeling nervous about calling him "Harold" anymore. Returning from a twelve-day honeymoon on Marco Island, off Florida's west coast, and Nassau, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, made a politic assessment of the stewardship of his bride, Barbara Cavanagh Wagner, in the kitchen cabinet. "The fish wasn't bad," said the mayor, "but the roast needed a little more practice. And a little more flavor. I think she needs fur ther instruction." "Noel Coward once said that some women should be struck regularly, like a gong," wrote Novelist John...
Married. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 55, New York City's third-term mayor; and Barbara Joan Cavanagh, 36, United Shoe Machinery Corp. heiress and longtime friend of the mayor's late wife Susan; he for the second time; by Francis Cardinal Spellman, in Manhattan. Following a ten-day honeymoon on Marco Island, Fla., the Wagners will live in a duplex suite at Manhattan's Hotel Carlyle while apartment hunting, relegating the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, to official use only, since they would have to move out when his term ends in December and, as Mrs. Wagner...