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This elected prankster is not unique in the city. School Committeewoman Elvira "Pixie" Palladino ("She's got balls," Dapper says) achieved her notoriety by slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white...
...doing, Mike O'Shea--who holds the course record--John Treacy, and Stetson Arnold clinched first place for the Friars. UMass John McGrail took fourth, before Harvard's freshman Peter Fitzsimmons served evidence that yes, the Crimson had remembered to show up for the meet...
...Redmen placed two other runners in the top 20. William Gillin took fifth place in the meet, while John McGrail placed 13th. No other team was able to land more than two runners among the first 20 finishers...
...PAINTER by Duard G. Slattery, illustrated by Sanford McGrail (Lion; $4.50). Taken directly from the 1960 Academy Award-winning short, the book depicts an abstract artist who throws paint on a large canvas, then slices it up for sale. As much fun as the movie...
Credit is due H. Henry Franck's interpretation of the town crier and Paul Fithian's performance as the gullible schoolmaster. M. Mousquet is only sketchily defined by Jack McGrail, and the succession of rural bumpkins who fall for Knock's prescriptions emerge from the clinic like so many neatly packaged sandwiches from an automat...