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- Page 9 and 10: Chapter 9 - HOPPING AT THE HARVARD
- Page 11 and 12: BEYOND THE CLASSROOM DOOR: A MEMOIR
- Page 13 and 14: Chapter 15 - HISTORY CAN BE FUN 1.
- Page 15 and 16: Chapter 19 - THE SEVEN WONDERS QUES
- Page 17 and 18: Chapter 23 - TAKING ON GOLIATH - A
- Page 19: Chapter 27 - GAY AM I BY THE GOD TH
- Page 24 and 25: On December 5, 1933, the 18 th amen
- Page 26 and 27: BRIDGET DELIA MURRAY My mother, Bri
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- Page 30 and 31: As the storm troopers of the Third
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- Page 34 and 35: THE RESIDENTS - A TRUE MOSAIC I wou
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- Page 39 and 40: CHAPTER 2 - KILROY WAS HERE AND SO
- Page 41 and 42: TAKE THAT YOU RATS Conserve! Conser
- Page 43 and 44: In 1941, my next-door neighbor, the
- Page 45 and 46: Sabotage was all the talk on Februa
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- Page 51 and 52: THERE’S GLAD NEWS TONIGHT LADIES
- Page 53 and 54: The pre-War years saw the advent of
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- Page 62 and 63: With a bar located in our building,
- Page 64 and 65: A CINEPHILE IS BORN From day one, I
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The book was formatted in a questio
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PLAYMATES 57 th Street is a wide cr
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The next big event was the beginnin
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Costumes for trick and treating wer
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PCQ6: What superhero did young Bill
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Trying to find Aunt Betty after com
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My favorite radio program was “Un
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It was about that time in my life t
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My Irish-born mom, Delia, gave me
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It wouldn’t be too long before I
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CONFIRMATION NAME? PATRICK, OF COUR
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Even though I could not swim, I alw
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As my entry into the eight-grade qu
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The carousel was not too far away f
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My second “arrest” came after p
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One experience that I shall never f
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Come the summer of ’47, I was thi
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Me, well I liked my 15 minute seria
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The parade went on as scheduled. Pr
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I declined her generous offer, and
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No sooner than I arrived back in th
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Chapter 5 - ACADEMY DAYS AT POWER M
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For more serious offenses, such as
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I would go on to take Latin II with
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The four years of Music Theory were
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The following were the rules that w
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On the first Friday of every month
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I’m sure that many of us have hea
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In most cases, your homeroom modera
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Brother Offer failed me! That’s w
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THOMAS P. KOSTKA, BROTHER EXTRAORDI
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IT’S A DANGEROUS WORLD OUT THERE,
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Chapter 6 - A TYPICAL TEENAGER? GRO
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PUPPY LOVE Have you ever passed a p
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SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENT The post-wa
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It was on this same stoop that the
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My delivery zone included a two-blo
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Paulist organist, Herb Becker, also
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Across the street, adjacent to the
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Miss Cowhey gave Elizabeth and Bell
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EATING OUT Eating out as a teenager
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PCQ14: What was the name of the New
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Charlotte Leonard had worked with m
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Upon turning eighteen, all young me
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Chapter 7 - GROWING UP CATHOLIC IN
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Senior servers were given select as
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HERB BECKER, ROLE MODEL One of the
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Taking advantage of the cavernous a
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During each mass, the parish priest
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As for me, I chose not to attend an
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One of my attributes was, and is, h
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THOSE FORTY DAYS OF LENT - OUCH! As
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Lent officially ended at noon on Ho
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DELIA’S SECRET SHATTERS AN IRISH
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Because of my fidelity to the Catho
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I took a cab from the Olean train s
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BEER AND BURTON BURGERS About a hal
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LETTERS FROM MOM While all of the l
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A MIXED UP COLLEGE KID Upon my retu
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Brother Kostka’s U. S. History cl
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After checking that morning at a lo
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Having to declare a major by the mi
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DRINKING BEER AND PLAYING THE JUKEB
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One day, while in a creative mood,
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For the next week I was their house
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The daily routine began with the sh
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And yet another weekend I went up t
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Chapter 9 - HOPPING AT THE HARVARD
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I arrived early on my first day of
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WALKING THE GREAT WHITE WAY The cre
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RISING THROUGH THE RANKS It was a b
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THE STEADIES McClure Howland was a
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HARVARD HALL The most impressive ro
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Heading the list was George S. Mont
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In January of 1957 Governor J. Brac
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Based in Washington, D.C., Mr. Ferm
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Sometimes my co-workers were in a f
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Mr. Montgomery and Mrs. Cowles both
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Chapter 10 - THE BELLHOP AND THE DI
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An emergency session of the Securit
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THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE IS INVOKED
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Dr. Malik had invited me to attend
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On February 4 we met at the Harvard
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We both put on our finest attire an
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Although Charles Habib Malik passed
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Eisenhower was a visionary a la Hen
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The 1990 movie Guilty by Suspicion
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Shortly after the hearings, Senator
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Sometime during the late 1960’s,
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Religious programs abounded over th
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Television would change the entire
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A BLUE-COLLAR PATRON OF THE ARTS My
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HANGING OUT AT THE “GREASY SPOON
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FUNTIMES IN THE CITY One thing was
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE ORANGE ROOFS GON
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I like watching the credits followi
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ROCKAWAY BEACH - “IRISHTOWN, USA
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An evening walk on Rockaway’s boa
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The life to the Coliseum, which was
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Anti-Semitic references were common
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Journalists like Murray Kempton of
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BEYOND THE CLASSROOM DOOR: MEMOIR O
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September had arrived and, in despe
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The year 1957 marked a giant step f
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Aside from the academics and athlet
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My good friend from Hell’s Kitche
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Former New Jersey governor, Jim McG
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Brother Offer was the ultimate capt
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As we arrived considerably early fo
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At the beginning of my drinking day
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On a not so spirited level were the
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PLAYLAND TIME Playland, Rye is an a
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Chapter 13 - WHO SEZ I WOULDN’T M
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We now had, in effect, a mini-home
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Of course, the law of averages dict
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Highlighting the All Hallow’s Eve
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Behind the desk, I had to prepare t
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A TEACHER GROWS IN AN EVER-GROWING
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Brother William Vianney Dennehy had
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Certainly the Symphony Hall move wa
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The luncheon paid off for shortly t
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The two weeks went by quickly and I
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Chapter 14 - BOTH SIDES OF THE HUDS
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~ Unfortunately, North Arlington di
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Yes, we are sandwiched in between N
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My initial introduction to my new p
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Variety shows still held their popu
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They settled down on Brentwood wher
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Carnegie Hall was only a few blocks
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Al Gamache was the bartender and qu
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They both ordered a piccolo of cham
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One night, I discovered Dixieland J
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Our first major presentation was he
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Sunday, we visited more shrines and
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However, this was not the case when
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Nearly ten thousand people visited
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THE JERSEYMEN One of the more lasti
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The Archdiocesan officials now had
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While the students danced the night
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Congressman Osmers articulated the
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YOU’RE ON THE AIR I have always b
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While the play was being written, I
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Chapter 16 - MR. MURRAY GOES TO WAS
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Because of the large volume of busi
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The headquarters for the Eagleton s
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The Speaker, John McCormack from Ma
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Yes, there is a subway (tram) syste
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By 10AM, I was sorting the Congress
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In the old days, a representative o
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A HEARING HERE AND A BRIEFING THERE
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Back in 1964 a Congressperson repre
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CONGRESSMAN OSMERS, NEW JERSEY’S
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A new lexicon of words and phrases
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Congressman Rodino advised the grou
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We were all “bright and bushy-tai
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I attended briefings at the Pentago
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I returned to Washington on Friday,
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I visited mom often on “the Drive
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OUR SUMMER ESTATE A camp without ca
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THE REALM OF RIP VAN WINKLE It was
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Mom and I were invited to attend th
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Before I left for the Catskills, my
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A GLORIOUS SUNSET FOR DELIA In an e
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After having a light lunch, I prepa
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AT MY FATHER’S HOUSE Brother Denn
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Yes, I miss my mother dearly. Whene
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One of the greatest sport challenge
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The summer of 1969 went smoothly at
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Joe and Pat are cat fanciers and I
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Proud of his new school, John invit
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Thanks to Mary Lonergan, we drove a
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At the conclusion of the formal age
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One evening, while sipping on a Dew
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So it was at a late fall Faculty Me
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In a cabal-like setting, elements o
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About 4:30PM I fixed myself a Manha
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November 1978 was a bittersweet mon
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The Club grew, as did the fish tale
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A UNION ACTIVIST IS REBORN I reacti
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4. Academic freedom, including Firs
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Chapter 19 - THE 7 WONDERS QUEST AN
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THE ENVELOPE PLEASE The big day fin
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And speaking of Atlantic City, Mari
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AN ALUMNUS RETURNS TO POWER MEMORIA
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The staff was quite professional. T
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Michael Holly was one of my former
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THE OFFICE Brother Mike Binkley mad
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AND WE’RE OFF I had big plans for
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THE 7 X 7 MANMADE WONDERS OF NEW YO
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The nominees for the 7 X 7 Manmade
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AND THE WINNERS ARE The moment arri
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Chapter 20 - SIGHTS, SCHOOLS AND ST
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Then it was on to Ventura for a thr
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Do you know the way to San Jose? On
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In the fall of 1981, Mr. Outwater c
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In 1990, Mr. Hungerford announced t
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Hopping “Amsterdammers” (stanch
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I decided that Rome should be our s
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A close friendship also developed b
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In 1987, I organized our own “Jeo
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Another one of my former student’
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The producers and Mr. Downey were g
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I had the opportunity to talk to Mo
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“Children of the Stormy Sixties,
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Scene II, “The U.S.O. - Over Here
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Chapter 21 - THE STORMY SIXTIES AND
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The Democrats went on to choose Hub
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Some of the century’s great bands
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There have been other controversial
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One day during his United States Am
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A terse statement from the principa
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It was not uncommon too, for an Ess
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STOPPED AT THE BORDER ALONG CANADA
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WE HAVE NO MONEY - THE LIBRARY AND
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Some 400,000 flower children conver
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Chapter 22 - LEADING OUR NATION’S
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PATERNALISM PREVAILS Back in the da
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Substantial salary gains were negot
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CONTRACT MISINTERPRETED George Ripl
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That same day I wrote a letter on b
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THE WEEKEND BEFORE “S” DAY Vari
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The striking teachers picketed each
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Mr. Bannigan, and older, distinguis
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I definitely think that, subconscio
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THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE F
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Chapter 23 - TAKING ON GOLIATH - A
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THE PLOY I had to devise an effecti
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Barry Ryan, President of the Lay Te
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John Murray of Philadelphia offered
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Of all the three AFT locals, it was
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Hung over, I returned to North Arli
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Mike Walsh, a good Irish-Catholic (
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At an April 29 th meeting with Ed L
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Not to be outdone, I issued a two p
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As a result of this landmark decisi
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Chapter 24 - BICENTENNIAL FEVER USA
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The mailing process was tedious, wh
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After the presentation ended, we we
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DINNER WITH DICK No, not that Dick,
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Bob Tortoriello, then a student at
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I think that far too many people to
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As mentioned previously, I had an o
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Joan Hull, the first non-Catholic e
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September had arrived and the Commi
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THE GLORIOUS FOURTH, 1976 New York
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TAKING OVER AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR T
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IF I WERE ONLY MAYOR Mr. Carmen Bia
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Two glass-enclosed showcase cars fe
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A statewide effort to recreate Wash
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Chapter 25 - ON AND OFF THE BARSTOO
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Sitting on the barstool and swiveli
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MOTHER FORGIVE ME FOR I KNEW NOT WH
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In May of ’69, I was coaching my
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On August 31, 1972, I overindulged
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THE IRISH ROAD SHOW Martin Costello
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After having a couple of Manhattan
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That was the case one evening in th
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I spent that Sunday with a former E
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THE CENTURY HOUSE OF RED BANK, NEW
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Finally, someone discovered me, and
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One must try to follow the 12 Steps
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Chapter 26 - DOUBTING THOMAS SWINGS
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Not only was I repelled by the Brit
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Then came the somewhat non-descript
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Why confess your sins to a priest w
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PHEBOPHILES PARADISE While I was no
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AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN In
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Blue laws are so much a part of the
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In 2000, I voted for the Green Part
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Lobbies remain a vital force in Ame
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CARD-CARRYING MEMBER OF THE A.C.L.U
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I do not believe in individual welf
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Chapter 27- GAY AM I BY THE GOD THA
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My high school years at Power Memor
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It was not until the 1974-75 academ
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The Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop o
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THE CONTINENTAL BATHS, A HOMOSEXUAL
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Yes, it was one of those nights - a
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LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG P
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Pickup bars and male escort agencie
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Since the death of my mom, Delia, i
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St. Anselm’s in Wayside, New Jers
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On the Long Island Expressway, ther
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The highlight of Gay pride is event
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To me, the “gay American” annou
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My friend, Bill Hungerford, a Unite
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GAYS ARE GOD’S CHILDREN TOO As a
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I clipped the piece from the NYT an
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After many re-writes, I finally mai
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I decided to title the anthology: T
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The following Saturday another poet
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We had seen Nunsense a few years ea
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“OH BROTHER!” - THE PRODUCTION
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The following week, I read the crit
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His patter skips back and forth bet
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Bobby picked me up at Newark Airpor
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On Wednesday, May 28 th Scott met m
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Then, at age sixty-five, I applied
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Red Bank is the home of the Count B
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I still have the blood of the city
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On Sunday evening, Bobby and his fa
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~ On Wednesday, January 15 th , the
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I was released from “PC” about
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Please, God, take me. Don’t take,
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I rediscovered Philly in 1998 and h
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TC’S NEWSLETTERS TO MY FORMER STU
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Introducing Marc, I made sure to we
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LIFE IS A PUZZLE I am a “couch po
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I had heard that a classmate of min
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The 2006 post-parade party was held
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On March 28, 2006, I returned to th