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Flint-chinned Joseph Fay was a man of appalling power. As vice president of the A.F.L. International Union of Operating Engineers, bellicose Joey Fay bossed the building trades of the New York-New Jersey area for years, and labor leaders, industrialists and politicians paid him homage. (Once Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches...
Joey's name bobbed up in the harness-racing scandal (TIME, Oct. 5). William De Koning, boss of the union whose members kicked back money in order to keep their jobs, was reported to be a faithful visitor at Joey Fay's Sing Sing address. Reporters demanded a list of Joey's other callers, got a shocking surprise. No fewer than 87 persons, many of them celebrated, had gone to see Joey...
Pride of the Family (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). Paul Hartman and Fay Wray...
Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, L. I., has been awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for the member of the class who "by scholarship, conduct and character has shown evidence of the greatest promise...
...System (Warner) methodically goes through the steps of putting together a crime melodrama. But it has far too little action, is much too flabby and too gabby. The plot: a powerful newspaper publisher (Fay Roope) objects to his daughter (Joan Weldon) associating with Gambling Boss Frank Lovejoy. Things end fairly happily when Gangster Lovejoy, having come to the conclusion that "you can't run a clean sewer," spills all to a crime investigating committee and goes off to prison knowing that Joan will wait...