‘Fiorello!’ Charms at ‘Encores’; Spooky ‘Vandal’: Review
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Five feet tall and jowlier than Winston Churchill, Fiorello LaGuardia ruled New York City from 1934 to 1945.
He broke the Tammany Hall political machine. When a strike interrupted newspaper delivery, the populist mayor took to the airwaves, reading the day’s comic strips over the radio.