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...chemical-warfare branch, was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in 1945. A Republican since joining Fiorello La Guardia's home club in 1932, he immediately got himself appointed research chief for the G.O.P.'s New York City mayoralty candidate, Jonah Goldstein, who was roundly whipped by Bill O'Dwyer. As a reward for his labors, the party offered Javits the nomination for Congress in the 21st District, an exceptionally HIerate, sophisticated?and Democratic?area which had attracted so many German-Jewish refugees from Hitler that part of it was nicknamed "the Fourth Reich." Espousing a resoundingly liberal line, Javits upset...
...period has it been played by so many virtuoso performers. In the U.S. and Europe, there are at least 30 first-rate flutists-London's Geoffrey Gilbert and William Bennett, Manhattan's John Wummer and Samuel Baron, Rochester's Joseph Mariano, Boston's Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Detroit's Albert Tipton, Marlboro's Louis Moyse-and among them there are four who may well belong among the great flute players of all time...
Mayor John V. Lindsay, unlike his predecessor, is inexperienced as both a mayor and as a labor negotiator, and does not have the benefit of the "understanding" that has existed between Quill and the Democratic mayors since the inauguration of William F. O'Dwyer...
...delighted many Catholics but shocked others, and the correspondence columns of diocesan newspapers have recently been filled with letters about the version. "I haven't met anybody who has liked it," says Msgr. Charles Finn, pastor of Boston's Holy Name Church, and Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno complains that the translation reduces "language to its lowest common denominator of intelligibility." Some critics saw an implied denial of Christ's divinity in the Confraternity phrasing of Matthew 28:6: the two women at Jesus' tomb are told, "He has been raised," not "He has risen...
Over a protest from the College that a second will had been drawn while Shea was mentally unsound, the on April 2 awarded Dwyer $6000 a $20,000 duplex on Putnam St. in Cambridge...