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LOITERING WITH INTENT by Muriel Spark Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 217 pages...
Donovan raised some $600,000 for Reagan's campaign and hosted a $200,000 fund raiser, featuring Frank Sinatra, at a 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...
...President showed a bit of whimsy in the timing of his first such nomination: he announced on St. Patrick's Day that William Edward McCann, 50, an insurance executive from Short Hills, N.J., and a Reagan-Bush fund raiser in the 1980 campaign, was his choice as Ambassador to Ireland. Several other appointments are now said to be in the works: Brent Scowcroft, 56, former National Security Adviser under President Ford, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union; John J. Lewis Jr., 54, chairman of Phoenix's Combined Communications Corp., to Britain; Robert Neumann, 65, the vice chairman...
...McCann, 49, the daughter of a subway worker, grew up in Manhattan's garment district, attending parochial schools and Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., which was then an expensive Catholic school for women. "It's a poor family that can't afford one lady," said her father, who had to struggle to keep her there. Working in school plays gave her a taste of drama. During a trip to a real backstage-to visit Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town-she became infected with an incurable disease: the dread Broadway fever. Says she: "I was hooked...
...Saratoga Springs, N.Y., which at that time was also an expensive women's college. Nugent, 41, majored in drama as well, and she also took several low-paying jobs so that she could work in the theater, chiefly backstage. Nederlander reasoned that her backstage technical expertise neatly complemented McCann's experience in the front office...