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...Kermit Morrissey, Dean of Students at Brandeis, said that the students arrested Friday have been suspended from the campus until a November 13 hearing...
...parties. Sousaphones harrumphed, fireworks whiz-banged, and chicken sizzled to a crunchy golden brown. Welterweight Champion Emile Griffith was signed for a nontitle fight; Arnold Palmer and Gary Player were booked for an exhibition golf match. All in all, just the sort of shindig that would have delighted John Morrissey-the man who started the whole bawdy binge a century...
Bible readings were Saratoga's biggest thrill when "Old Smoke" Morrissey hit town in 1861. But not for long. Gambler, dandy, ex-bordello bouncer, heavyweight boxing champion (and later a U.S. Congressman), Morrissey opened Saratoga's first race track, spent $190,000 building his Club House into one of the most enticing gambling mousetraps in the Western Hemisphere. Practically overnight, high livers from around the world began beating a path to Old Smoke's door...
...reasons, turned down an A.B.A. appeal to preserve the bipartisan status quo of the present bench division (157 Democrats. 159 Republicans). The trend toward bench Democracy has already caused some agitation. Boston legal circles complain that the Attorney General has been toying with the nomination of Municipal Judge Francis Morrissey to a new Massachusetts district judgeship. A gladhanding Democratic politician, Morrissey has had little trial experience as a lawyer, but he is a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy's and a former campaign aide of the President's. Anyhow. Justice officials insist that they will improve at least...
Ridge's trouble is that he has a menace on the board of directors in the person of Wheeler-Dealer Walter J. Mornssey, a man to whom a convertible is not a car but a debenture. Morrissey wants to fold Trumpet and its sister magazine. Gentlewoman, and save the firm's other, money-making divisions, thereby boosting the company stock and setting up a multimillion-dollar capital gain for himself. In the Cottier situation. Gentlewoman was Woman's Home Companion, and the Morrissey role was played by smooth Financier J. Patrick Lannan, who with other industrialists held...