Word: patrick
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Erich Segal '58, teaching fellow in General Education, won the St. Patrick's Day Super-Marathon (33 miles) in Bethesda, Md., yesterday. The Dunster House classicist led from the eight mile mark and finished in four hours and 12 minutes, qualifying for an international championship to be held in England later this year...
...plot is unimportant: an old guard (Walter Macken) and a young guard (Patrick McGoohan) wait tensely for a reprieve to arrive for the quare fellow (prison slang for a condemned man), and when it fails to arrive they lead him grimly to the gallows. What matters is the compelling illusion of life as it is lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly...
...Patrick's Church...
Weapons Afloat. Alarmed at the prospect of damage to mine installations in which both Britain and Belgium had heavy investments, British U.N. Ambassador Sir Patrick Dean and Belgium's Walter Loridan demanded assurances from Thant that the U.N. forces would go no farther. Thant assured them that they had halted at the Lufira River. That was correct, up to a point. With three bridges down, the Indians stopped at the Lufira all right, but only long enough to rig ropes and pulleys to a swimming float and ferry 120-mm. mortars, recoilless rifles and Jeeps across the stream. Noronha...
Died. James Patrick McGranery, 67, U.S. Attorney General in the Truman Administration's last year, a onetime New Deal Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia (1936-43) who was brought in to clean house in the Justice Department after Truman fired his predecessor, J. Howard McGrath; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...