Word: galvin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of the film's 125 min., accurately enough to be utterly convincing, with enough restraint so that the audience does not get a hangover, and sympathetically enough so that he reaches out, shakily, and touches heroism. Frank Galvin is a formerly bright and formerly young Boston attorney who was railroaded out of his law firm by a crooked senior partner. He took to what in Boston is called the drink and fell apart. Galvin has had five cases in three years and has lost four. The fifth...
Working on the story proved emotionally absorbing to all the journalists involved, many of whom are women. Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, who contributed to both previous covers, found the issue no less complicated than when she started reporting on the women's movement a dozen years ago. "And the emotion," she says, "is no less difficult to separate from the facts." Atlanta Correspondent Anne Constable brought to the story several years' experience covering women's issues. New York Correspondent Janice Simpson was struck by a political broadening and awakening in the movement: "I discovered that...
...life. This finding applied to our own correspondents. "I first got my Social Security card at 16 in Chicago," says Atlanta Bureau Chief Joe Boyce. "Little did I know then that I was entering into a lifelong relationship with federal, state and local bureaucracy." Recalls Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin: "I well remember when I received my Social Security card. It still bears the name of my employer at the time. And it is one of the few things I have never lost." Says Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey: "It was obtained so long ago I would have to resort...
...they can: the senior class has pledged a total of $126,000 for its class gift. It is the largest gift by far ever pledged by a Brown senior class, and nearly a third of the money is earmarked for student loans. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin/ Providence
...that someone who had held a steady job for that long would suddenly turn to robbery. Then there was the policemen's claim that Bowden had tried to ram one of them with his car. "I happen to know," O'Donnell told TIME's Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, "that when police want an out, they always say that. When I read the newspaper story, my life behind the badge gave me an X ray no one else would have, and I said, 'They're liars...