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...JACK M. RIORDAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Professor Kelley, after drawing a complicated graph on a blackboard: "If you gentlemen don't see the logic of that immediately, I won't be surprised." Murmurs Dan Riordan after class, confronted with an "O, give curve suddenly: O, give me a home on the range...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...tunnel opened on the side of a railroad embankment, down which they slid and ran along the tracks. In Water Street they were spotted by two cops. They fired, killing Patrolman James Fagan. Patrolman William Nelson fired back, drilling Convict James Waters through the heart. The other two, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, pelted river-wards. On the bank they found a shad fisherman, forced him to row them across the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...navigation and me living in his home are a lot of hooey. . . . The guy . . . started sending me cables to appear in ... night clubs, . . . and him a preacher, at that." Day later, at San Francisco City Hall, beside Mayor Angelo Rossi, he noted the Irishmen on the reception committee (Quinn, Riordan, Casey, Murphy, Reilly) : ". . . From the names ... I figured I was back in Ireland. And here I always thought you were all Eyetalians up here." The crowd tittered uncertainly, then Corrigan said his last word: "You came to laugh at me and I came to laugh at you, so I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Adventure's End | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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