Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Browne hated to do it, but she had to use the 48 candles from her husband's birthday cake to light the house. One Fifth Avenue jeweler credited the sale of a $6,500 brooch to candlelight. "It does give such an attractive glow to diamonds," he purred. At Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used to commemorate the dead. The New York Hilton used 30,000 candles during the long night. So great was the demand that Ajello's candle shop in midtown sold fancy bayberry models...
Died. Andrew Joseph Gillis, 69, hell-raising ofttime mayor of Newburyport, Mass. (pop. 14,100), a brawling Irishman known as "Bossy," who bulled his way through six sporadic two-year terms between 1927 and 1959, engaging in such shenanigans (chopping down city-owned trees, libeling a judge) that he was arrested countless times, sentenced to two jail terms, and finally proved too much even for the whimsical citizens of his old seafaring town;* of a heart attack two days after losing his 20th bid for mayor; in Newburyport...
GETTYSBURG, PA., Summer Theater: The Playboy of the Western World is a timid young Irishman whose moments of rebellion earn him first adulation and then scorn. John Synge's 40-year-old comedy remains an ironic and telling tale...
...quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses The Knack...
...boss by virtue of having taken vigorous charge of the job. New York City, disappointed in two recent experiences with superintendents hired from outside the system, turned six weeks ago to one of its own, making Bernard Eugene Donovan,* 54, acting superintendent. The schools thus got a stocky, ambitious Irishman who is not only a creature of the system but who loves it. "I've been in it for 35 years and I feel a certain affinity for it," he says. "I see great things that can be done with...