Fordham, BA; early career influences; First Assistant Comptroller, New York State, 1961; Arthur Levitt: character, philosophical position on cash management and investment, decisions to run for Comptroller and Mayor of New York City; involvement with New York City and Yonkers fiscal crises during 1970's, personal and political relations with colleagues, especially Edward Koch, Hugh Carey, Nelson Ro ckefeller, William Volet, Robert Wagner