Word: fitzpatrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Joseph Fitzpatrick's view on Puerto Rican crime [Oct. 26] is the typical head-in-the-clouds attitude of sociologists, who spend too much time in the library and not enough time in the streets. Irish and German immigrant crime a century ago is a historical fact but not an excuse for today's crime. Father Fitzpatrick and other sociologists should present workable solutions to immigrant crime instead of simply apologizing...
...Father Fitzpatrick somehow reminded me of Father Flanagan of Boys Town, who once uttered that classic absurdity: "There are no bad boys...
Says kind Father Fitzpatrick: "The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York." Really, Father Fitz? Since when are rape, murder, robbery and slashings considered a mark of dignity...
...most refreshing to read Father Fitzpatrick's evaluation of Puerto Ricans in relation to the delinquency problem in New York City, and his notation that every immigrant group, when it first settled, got into the same trouble, but that as time passed, these groups have become adapted and respectable. Being a Puerto Rican myself, and very proud of it, I was most happy to read this article...
More Dead Than Alive. Next day, as the 100 or so other Air Force guests crowded around closed-circuit TV sets at Tyndall to watch the high-altitude shoots, Healy and Fitzpatrick. who did not show up for the demonstration, decided that they had had enough of that "William Tell stuff." To Motel Keeper Faulkner's relief, they made plane reservations for New Orleans, bought their own plane tickets, paid Faulkner $32 for long-distance calls, and went away, leaving two more dead soldiers behind...