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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). La Guardia - a petal-by-petal re creation of New York City's Little Flower...
...table and swigging from it all evening, explaining that his host's liquor was lousy. His sideline was running the lucrative national lottery. But after ousting Strongman Pibulsonggram, Sarit went off the bottle and then to work, house-cleaning Thailand from top to bottom. In La Guardia fashion, he roams the streets, checking on police and garbage men, dropping in on sidewalk cafés for a chat, handing out fines for tossing fruit peelings on the street. He also likes to set himself up as a one-man prosecutor, judge and jury, has personally tried defendants accused...
...Suite 1625-1633 of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller put the matter squarely to Republican Senator Jacob K. javits: the G.O.P. stood its best chance since Fiorello La Guardia to capture New York City's mayoralty-and Jack Javits, a remarkable vote getter, was the man to do the job. In urging Javits to run, Rockefeller was playing for high stakes: a Republican victory in New York City next November would help Rocky carry the state next year and greatly enhance his chances for the 1964 G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...State's able Attorney General Louis Jacob Lefkowitz, 56. Born and bred in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, sad-eyed Louis Lefkowitz worked his way through Fordham law school, worked faithfully for the Republicans during their leanest years, was tapped as a city judge by La Guardia, later did handsomely in private law practice, and has proved himself a hard and effective campaigner...
...fearless step toward forthrightness and publicity, the management of Fiorello! announced that instead of distributing twofers, it is moving the show to a larger theater and cutting prices on all tickets (from a $9.40 top to $7.50 on weekends). Eyes uplifted to a picture of the late Mayor La Guardia, a press-agent psalmed: "We like to think that the exuberant little man who championed his beloved city around the world would heartily approve of our making the musical comedy about him available to the widest and largest audience possible...