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...Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an Irishman who was arrested many times for perpetrating such tricks...
...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...
Inevitably, Meany had to reply. Last week he turned up in Brussels, barking angrily: "It's all lies, lies, lies! I never used the word homosexual!" It's like this, he explained: "I'm an Irishman and we have a lot of stories about fairies and leprechauns, and we also use the word fairy simply to say somebody is a gossip, an idle gossip...
...omens seemed far from favorable. "A situation exists that could lead to a strike," said Bertram A. Powers, 42, the stubborn Irishman whose printers triggered the 114-day strike against Manhattan newspapers two winters ago. Now the printers and publishers are negotiating once more, and "deadlock" was Powers' word to describe the situation. With that, he flew to Colorado Springs to carry the gloomy tidings to International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown...
Perhaps even more important, this time Irishman Powers is pitted against a different type of adversary. Last time around, he sat across the bargaining table from Amory Howe Bradford, 52, vice president and general manager of the New York Times, an Ivy League product (Phillips Academy, Yale '34) whose icy and unbending demeanor only stiffened Bert Powers' spine. This time, the publishers' bargaining voice is John J. Gaherin, 50, an Irishman with whom Powers can probably come to terms...