Word: wyner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Boyle, 40, stars as the Red-baiting chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in NBC's Feb. 6 movie, Tail Gunner Joe. The film, which also features Burgess Meredith as Lawyer Joseph Welch, Patricia Neal as Senator Margaret Chase Smith and George Wyner as Roy Cohn, spans McCarthy's life from his teen-age years to his death in 1957. The title comes from a bizarre publicity stunt staged during his World War II Marine days. To look like a hero back home, McCarthy engineered news photographs of himself pretending...
...acquired the building, from Felix Garagianes and Nicholas C. Culolias, who had bought it in 1925 from Albert H. Blevins, who had bought it from the Harvard Amusement Company (was it a penny arcade? a whorehouse?). McDonough is listed as the building's sole owner until 1939, when Edward Wyner bought a stake in it; and in 1945 the building came under its present ownership, a complicated trust involving five Wyners and a few others...
Most of the Concord Building's present tenants came in the early days of the Wyner Trust. Raia moved there in 1950; Marguerite Fuller bought the Betty Lee Beauty Shop in 1954; and John and Theodora Marston bought the Darling Secretarial Service in 1948. The Marstons are, in fact, the building's senior tenants now, although they like to defer that honor to Jimmy Quinn on the grounds that he is second-generation...