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...spare a quarter for an Irishman...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Begging the Question | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...overwhelming electoral success last month by incumbent Mayor Raymond L. Flynn in Boston's predominately Black sections indicates that the white Irishman has managed to build a citywide coaltion...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Flynn Wins Over Black Community | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...from war victorious and well-mannered; the first thing they asked for when they disembarked was milk. Half the earth's races huddled together in picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful Town MANHATTAN '45 | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...YOUNG MAN and his alter ego. It's a frequent theatrical construction and one of the most toughest to pull off well. One actor is the public persona. The other is his conscience, his mind, his memory. The two sides of Gareth O'Donnell, a young Irishman, assume independent identities in Philadelphia, Here I Come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

Even before last week's grim harvest of hostages, the roster of those already held captive in Lebanon consisted of five Americans, five Frenchmen, two Britons, an Italian, an Irishman, a South Korean and a Saudi Arabian. Last week Vice President George Bush confirmed that another American hostage, CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley, was killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: A Frenzy of Hostage Taking | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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