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...tough, burly, street-smart politician, with a promising future and a flair for the spectacular. When New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay ordered the flag atop city hall lowered as a gesture of protest against the Viet Nam War. Matthew J. Troy Jr. appeared on the roof, coat flapping in the breeze, and put the flag back up. Said he: "That's where it belongs...
...Troy was also the master of the smoke-filled back room. Not only was he a New York City councilman, but he was Democratic leader of the huge borough of Queens (pop. 1.9 million). What toppled Troy was a matter of finances-the city...
...head of the council finance committee, Troy challenged Mayor Abe Beame's proposed budget. The mayor counterattacked by ousting him from his party post in Queens. On the same day, Sept. 19, 1974, federal investigators paid Troy a call, bringing along a request for his tax records. He was subsequently charged with, and pleaded guilty to, filing false income tax returns and withdrawing money from estates he managed as an attorney...
...balding pate and a "chubby cheesecake choked body," tries to add adventure and romance to his life. He enlists help from a magician (Tom Blumenfield) with a contraption that can catapult a person into the novel of his choice and decides to have an affair with Emma Bovary (Troy Segal...
...most of the other illicit action in the prison yard. He is a short, cocky fellow of 24 who keeps the other cons and a good many of the guards in line with brains and nerve, backed up by occasional knifings done by his chicano enforcer, Gasoline (Hector Troy). Chilly's boast, which he is intelligent enough to see as a hollow one, is that he has run every prison he has been in since he was 14. He has a loser's pride in his reputation; he keeps his word and enforces his rules...