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...major shakeup occured in the five-member school committee, as moderate David I. Finnegan took the seat vacated by Kerrigan and Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, an East Boston anti-busing leader, beat out anti-busing incumbent Paul J. Ellison...
...vote getter Kathleen Sullivan swept her way to another term on the school committee and joined fellow moderates Paul R. Tierney and Finnegan to give the committee a moderate majority...
...cross country race won by Chris Nice of Dartmouth junior Peter Dillon edged out captain Paul Finnegan for 29th place in the strong field...
...over to Berkeley. I didn't have any money, although I had a few good books and three records: On the Threshhold of a Dream, by the Moody Blues, Deaf, Dumb and Blind, by Pharaoh Sanders, and Readings of James Joyce, including an original cut of Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake...
...novel's brilliant crystallization of the pace and mood of the '20s and to what Fitzgerald himself called "blankets of beautiful prose." Deprived of that prose, a writer is in the position of "the poor devil of a screenwriter," in Fitzgerald's short story, Financing Finnegan. After trying to adapt "a distinguished author's novel," he says, "it's all beautiful when you read it, but when you write it down plain it's like a week in the nuthouse...