Word: halley
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February 8 will also mark the date for the Forum's next program. Rudolph Halley, president of New York's City Council, and Jerome L. Rappoport '47, director of the New Boston Committee, will speak on "Municipal Reform." A later program will be on "Snobbism in Music." Aaron Copland, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Arthur Fiedler, and Martin Buxband will be among the speakers...
...Rudolph Halley, who graduated from his job as a Kefauver crimebuster to the presidency of New York's City Council, thought he saw a way to save some city money. He voted to pay the bills for some recent civic receptions (including $5,488 for Italy's Premier de Gasperi, $2,856 for Sir Denys Lowson, Lord Mayor of London), but recommended a future ceiling of $50 for official greetings. Said he: "If we give parades to everybody who comes here, the celebrations lose significance." In most cases, "we can all go out on the steps of City...
...York City, Rudolph Halley, former Kefauver committee counsel, proved again that the once fearsome Tammany tiger is just a tired, sick old cat. Registration was low and the voting turnout was worse, conditions under which any vigorous political machine should be able to count on victory. But not Tammany; it went down before a television hero. During the Kefauver hearings, Halley had become as familiar to millions of televiewers as Hopalong Cassidy. As the Liberal-City Fusion-Independent candidate for council president, he was elected handily, and now his eyes seem intent on the mayor's chair...
Crime Syndicated (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Since his standout performance as special counsel of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
...Manhattan, Rudolph Halley, who made news on television as the file-voiced chief questioner for the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, signed on for another TV role. When radio's popular Gangbusters goes on CBS television next month, he will be its narrator. Salary: more than $2,000 a week...