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PACIFIC WAR DIARY, 1942-1945 by James J. Fahey. 404 pages. Houghfon Mifflin...
...James J. Fahey,* a New York City orphan raised by relatives in Waltham, Mass., was the most law-abiding of gobs in all respects but one: he kept a diary. He wrote it surreptitiously, on scraps of paper, in odd and usually half-dark places when he hoped nobody was looking...
Nobody could have known less about the Navy than did Fahey when he enlisted in 1942 at the age of 24. He was even surprised by the haircuts that all boots get-the nearest thing to scalping. "They even asked us our religion," wrote Roman Catholic Fahey a bit querulously, not realizing-as he did a hundred pages and 100,000 miles later-how important this could be when a man must be prepared to meet his Maker. Nobody could have been more naive than Fahey. "It is an honor to be on the flagship," he opined when...
...basing his appeal to the state parole board, which will recommend a course to the Governor, on an argument virtually without precedent in legal history: Crump's rehabilitation. Among the 60 persons who have given more than 200 pages of glowing testimony about Crump is Prison Guard Jack Fahey, whose life Crump saved by disarming an inmate during an escape attempt, and Warden Jack Johnson, a Crump admirer, who says that executing Crump "would be committing capital vengeance, not punishment...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...