Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention eve, Averell Harriman declared a "free and open convention," added (with complete truth): "It is a fiction that I am going to dominate the convention." At the same time, realizing that De Sapio & Co. could not be persuaded to accept Finletter, Harriman switched his major effort to Thomas Murray, onetime Atomic Energy commissioner, and generally classified as a little less to the Democratic left than Tom Finletter...
Carmine De Sapio and the borough bosses already controlled about 600 votes, with only 572 needed to nominate their candidate. That being so, they would have none of Tom Murray. But De Sapio was willing to try to avoid an open, party-fracturing break with Harriman. Efforts to find a compromise candidate inevitably turned to New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, popular in the city and upstate with both the liberal amateurs and the professionals...
...back room of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, Averell Harriman dabbed at damp eyes as the roll was called. Result: Hogan 773, Murray 304, Finletter...
...night was cool and windless as the runners lined up in Dublin's new Santry Stadium. Besides Elliott and Ireland's Hero Delany, the field included New Zealand Schoolteacher Murray Halberg, two other Australians: Merv Lincoln and Albert Thomas, a stubby little (5 ft. 5 in.) clerk from Sydney...
This week's show includes three plays each requiring four women and five men, so that every performer gets a crack at playing three different people. The starring roles are taken by Faye Emerson and Murray Matheson...