Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never planned politics," he says. "You just find yourself in an environment. You get deeper and deeper. You get activated." As an activated young man De Sapio made himself useful around the Huron Club, long the Tammany stamping ground and ruling place of the Finn family, beginning with "Battery Dan" Finn, then his son, then his son's son, Sheriff Dan Finn. "I carried coal baskets around the neighborhood. I used to go down to the markets, let the merchants know it was the Democratic Party calling, and get them to give us turkeys to hand...
Good costumes, color and lighting help give the film a Rembrandt-like feeling with dark backgrounds, rich hues, bright faces. Actor Todd is suitably racy as Sir Walter, and Dan O'Herlihy as his side kick, Lord Derry, keeps pace. Britain's Joan Collins is easy on the eyes. In the regalia of her office, Actress Davis chugs about the palace like a twelve-cylinder Tudor, hand signals and all. She shaved some of her hair off for this role, but even so great a sacrifice was in vain. The Virgin Queen is strictly corn of the realm...
...Daniel T. O'Shea, 51, onetime movie-mogul turned CBS vice president, was picked by RKO Radio Pictures' new owners (TIME, Aug. 1) to be president, succeeding Howard Hughes's longtime friend James Grainger. Born in Manhattan, Dan O'Shea set out to be a doctor, switched to Law (Harvard, '30). With the help of New Dealer Tommy Corcoran, O'Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea...
Plus Periodic Rest. From the Teamsters President Beck gets the same salary as doddering President Emeritus Dan Tobin, who retired in 1952: $50,000 a year.* He also gets some plain and fancy fringe benefits, including the right to travel at union expense anywhere in the world with his family and aides for "periodic rests"-a privilege specifically written into the Teamsters' constitution...
Most popular of all were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan...