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...wine to appease the spirits he brought with him, and a brass bracelet to signify friendship. Schecter cabled home: "I suppose it's work, but camping in a longhouse with bare-breasted girls who gently tip cups of sweet rice wine to your lips is more like an ex-New York writer's idea of nirvana...
...Danbury, Conn., federal prison strode Parolee James J. Moran, 61, his red hair turned white after 10½ years, his 220-lb. frame scaled down to 190-and his lips still sealed. A protege of ex-New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer. Moran was nailed in 1951 as the ''guiding genius" in a $500,000-a-year shakedown racket of oil burner contractors. Bigger fish in the city administration were feeding on the take, but Moran, offered a break if he named names, scornfully replied: "I came into this world...
...Times's A. M. (for Abraham Michael) Rosenthal, who was ordered to leave Poland for probing too deeply into its internal problems. One of the least surprising and most deserved awards: to Allen Drury for his bestselling novel. Advise and Consent, on official Washington. In England last week ex-New York Timesman Drury was asked for his views of U.S. presidential candidates, answered like a true statesman. On the Democrats: "Johnson, Stevenson, Kennedy and Humphrey are all intelligent men and would make good Presidents." As for the G.O.P.: "Nixon has some principles of his own'' and could...
...indeed. Last year in their first season in California the San Francisco (ex-New York) Giants finished twelve games off the pace in third place, and the Los Angeles (ex-Brooklyn) Dodgers wound up 21 games behind in seventh. This year the Giants and the Dodgers are chasing a pennant-and catching customers-with all the fire they flashed back at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field...
Murphy Waits. On a few facts the Ernst report, co-signed by ex-New York State Supreme Court Justice William Munson, saw eye-to-eye with a long-established story. On the evening of March 12, when Author (The Era of Trujillo) Galindez waved goodbye to a student in front of a New York subway entrance and then vanished, Gerry Murphy, a onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore., was waiting at out-of-the-way Zahns Airport near Amityville, L.I., his rented twin-engined Beechcraft D18 outfitted with extra gas tanks and ready to go. Ernst checked out Murphy...