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...plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
Sometimes bitter, sometimes buoyant, Jo is valiantly unresigned to the acrid facts of her life. She fences with her mother, lover, stepfather, friend and fate. Plummer invests her with an unfaltering pulse beat of humanity that radiates through the actress and her fellow players to every member of the audience...
Further questions have also been raised about Donovan's relationship with William Masselli, who has been described by the FBI as an alleged Mafia "soldier." Masselli is president of Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., which was a subcontractor for Schiavone. At Donovan's confirmation hearings, the FBI mentioned his alleged connections with Masselli, but shed little light on them. "I do not have any background whatsoever on him," Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen told the Senate committee. He added that there was "no reference" to Donovan in FBI wiretaps used to monitor organized crime...
...country club owned by Schiavone Construction. Co-host of the event was Insurance Executive William McCann, who has been appointed Ambassador to Ireland. During the campaign, Reagan attended a rally with Donovan at a New York City site where Schiavone Construction, with the help of Masselli's Jo-Pel Contracting, was working on a new midtown subway tunnel. A source familiar with the construction project told TIME that Donovan introduced Masselli and another man indicted with him, Joseph Bugliarelli, to Reagan. Says a spokeswoman for Donovan: "No introduction was made to the President that the Secretary recalls...
Miss Massachusetts, Jo Ann Savery, is not a Harvard University junior, contrary to an article that ran in Monday's Boston Globe...