Word: foley
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When he was 13 his father died. Al quit St. James Parochial School to go to work. He could hardly read the printed word. But by the time he was 19 he was earning high wages-$12 a week-at the Fulton Fish Market. Tom Foley, a Tammany district leader, made young Al his lieutenant. When he was 30, Foley got him elected to the state legislature...
...never been outside New York City, and he knew nothing about law or parliamentary procedure. He voted as Foley told him to vote, and for lonely years spent his nights in a cheap boardinghouse, trying to understand the bills before the Assembly. And he learned. He could talk. Men liked him. When a New York sweatshop fire in 1911 killed 149 women, he began fighting for a labor code for the state. He became a public figure, and speaker of the Assembly...
Injuries which have jinxed Sid Correll and Jim Foley for most of the season, will definitely keep both of these regulars out of tomorrow's race. States coach Mikkola, "the team will have to turn in their best effort of the year to win this...
Both Sid Correll and Jim Foley are out of condition from injuries and may not run. Captain Mark Tuttle and Charlie Atwell are both set, though, and should give Blanchard plenty of trouble. Wayne Homans, injured last Friday in a time trial, has recovered and will definitely start tomorrow. The meet will get under way promptly at 2:30 o'clock. All harriers should report to manager Bob Caploe by 2 o'clock for the pre-game warm-up exercises...
Sense without Sensibility. Martha Foley, onetime editor of Story magazine, has edited the perennial Best Short Stories since the death of Editor Edward J. O'Brien in 1941. The 30 stories in her 1944 collection (mostly written by relatively unknown authors) rate pretty high on common sense, low on imagination and passion. Most impressive: Of This Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student...