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...Around the first of March Murphy quit his job, saying he had got a high-paying charter proposition. The records show that on March 5 he arranged to rent (for $800) a twin-engined Beechcraft, registered as N 68100, at the Linden, N.J. airport. At a field on nearby Staten Island, he had it fitted to carry extra gasoline tanks. On March 12 at 9:44 a.m., he took off from Newark Airport, announcing his destination as Miami. But at 10:30 a.m. he landed at Zahns Airport in Amityville, L.I. That night, Murphy said later, a "cancer patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...pure design, not as art-it would make an excellent linoleum motif. Contrastingly, Loren Maclver's The Street shows a lyric tenderness; apparently there is still a bold blaze of originality in contemporary American art, for all of the maunderings of the abstract expressionists. TED LOVINGTON JR. Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Even amidst all this confusion, Harbor Lights might have been interesting had it had a lyrical or even believable line of dialogue. "If I've failed you, honey, it is all my fault," someone says to someone else. Now when would ordinary Staten Island white trash use that kind of language? If both the action and dialogue are impossible, even such accomplished players as Miss Linda Darnell and Mr. Robert Alda of Hollywood, Calif. are bound to have trouble. Most assuredly they at least know their lines...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Harbor Lights | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...best sopranos in the U.S. has neither a Metropolitan Opera nor a recording contract, although for 15 years she has been a nationwide radio favorite. Her name: Eileen Farrell, 35, the buxom wife of a Staten Island policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stolen Island Soprano | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...showed an early talent for painting and horseplay, but her voice took over, and she landed a regular singing job at CBS when she was 21. One day at her dressmaker's, she met an Irish cop from Staten Island. His name was Robert Vincent Reagan, and he was investigating a threatening letter received by the dressmaker. Reagan and Farrell were married in 1945, settled down in Staten Island, just a ferry ride from Manhattan. Then and there, Eileen Farrell found that she was a homebody with a true devotion to cooking and children (the Reagans have two). Nevertheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stolen Island Soprano | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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