Word: ryans
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William Fitts Ryan (it's not FitzRyan), is a tall and solidly built man of 43 with bright Irish eyes and a quiet voice. The son of a judge, Ryan was graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School, served his stint in World War II combat, and worked for seven years in the N.Y. District Attorney's office. With this background, he might have chosen to scramble quickly up the existing political ladder...
...helping to found Manhattan's Riverside Democrats in the mid-fifties, Ryan made reform his central issue. In a state whose Democratic tradition embraces both Franklin Roosevelt and Carmine De Sapio, the question of honest, representative government is anything but abstract. The men Tammany Hall was shuttling into office were dependent only on the machine...
...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...
...President, with Robert Ryan in the title role and Nanette Fabray as First Lady, is a taste-exempt musical that is bulging with more than $2,600,000 in advance-ticket-sale swag. The patrons of its 385 theater parties (largely benefit affairs) may redefine playgoing for charity as "painful giving...
...they could accomplish more in the precincts than on the picket lines. In his view, student politics came of age intellectually and politically when the peace marchers gave up "waving signs and singing songs" in favor of "stuffing envelopes and pushing doorbells for Prof. Hughes (and) Rep. William Fitts Ryan...." I do not dispute Mr. Roberts' assertion that this transformation is a sign that maturity has come to a particular segment of student politics: namely that composed of the militants of the "peace movement." What I do dispute is his implicit identification of this segment with student politics...