Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph O'Grady, a member of the Transit Authority, said, "I haven't given a thought to whether it is immoral or not." Mr. O'Grady made the statement after Assemblyman Monteleone called "bugging" legal but immoral. Mayor Wagner said that he was none too pleased, either...
Married. Natalie Wood (real name: Natasha Gurdin). 19 pert, petite cineminx (Kings Go Forth) known as "the teen-ager"; and brown-haired Cinemale (the "bobby-soxer's delight") Robert (Prince Valiant) Wagner, 27; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...just after the Anschluss, the Schells moved to Switzerland and rented the Zurich villa where Richard Wagner had worked on Tristan und Isolde. Maria was packed off to a convent school at Colmar in Alsace. At 15, she begged her father to let her study dramatics, but papa was an unsuccessful playwright as well as a practical Swiss, and he laid down the law: business school. Maria took a typing course and a job wrapping books in a mail-order house. Salary: about $11.50 a month. It was grim, but it did not last long...
...week's end some discouraged motormen, threatened with dismissal, were shuffling sadly back to work. Subway service was clunking back to normal-and so was the city. Bedeviled Mayor Wagner (a "jellyfish," snorted the New York Herald Tribune), refused to discuss the issue until the M.B.A. canceled its "illegal strike." The motormen could only appeal to Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, who, many suspected, would only appeal to Bob Wagner, who would only appeal...
...Ph.D. there in political science stressing the civil side of civil engineering. He became professor of engineering, then dean of administration at City College, took over the presidency of Queens in 1949. Two years ago he left Queens on leave to become deputy mayor to his old friend Bob Wagner, the son of his father's classmate at City College...