Word: fitzpatricks
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Dent in Power. Though a Democrat, Sprague had served as first assistant to Republican D.A. Arlen Specter from 1966 to 1974. He so admired his boss that he turned down an offer from Democratic leaders to run for D.A. in his own right. The Democrats then nominated F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, a successful criminal lawyer who trounced Specter in the election. Fitzpatrick wasted no time reorganizing the office. "After all, I campaigned against the operations of this office," he points out. One big change: assistant D.A.s were told they could come directly to the boss with problems. Previously they...
That was an unquestioned dent in Sprague's power, but the flash point between him and Fitzpatrick came over questions about the new D.A.'s ethics. First, local papers reported that after his election and before taking office, Fitzpatrick had held a victory cocktail party. Many of the lawyers who might well have future clients in trouble with the D.A. paid $50 a head to attend the fund raiser. "These parties are given all the time," says Fitzpatrick, who does not deny that the money collected went to him. The state supreme court's disciplinary board...
...Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, Wigglesworth professor of Dermatology, John A. Parrish, an assistant professor of Dermatology, Lewis Tannenbaum, a clinical fellow in dermatology, and Madhukar A. Pathak authored the report...
Tight end Bob Fitzpatrick provided the next Bruin highlight, snaring a Beatrice toss and carrying it forward to Harvard's 23-yard line. Runs by halfback Kevin Slattery and fullback Bob McNamara took the ball to Harvard's one yard line...
Robert J. Fitzpatrick, 34, a Canadian-born, onetime Jesuit seminarian, holds a master's degree in medieval French and oscillates between Johns Hopkins University, where he is dean of students, and city hall, where he is Baltimore's youngest city councilman. "More people should spend a limited time in public office, rather than a lifetime," says Fitzpatrick, a liberal Democrat. His goal: to be a U.S. Senator and a college president-not simultaneously...