Word: fitzpatrick
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Cynthia Karslake (Pamela Lewis) and Vida Phillimore (Barbara Reid) are the gay divorcees. Cynthia has become engaged to the ex-Mr. Phillimore (Kelly Fitzpatrick), and Vida is on the prowl for the ex-Mr. Karslake (Steven Ryan). What ensues is a flirtatious game of verbal Ping Pong and musical beds. The Asolo company is at its stylish best in The New York Idea, but perhaps an extra bow should go to Pamela Lewis as a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock...
...sometimes elicit action by overstating-and overheating-an issue: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick's unsubtle smog-laden cartoons helped clean up St. Louis' air back in the 1950s. It can provide a graphic perspective on this or any other time: Thomas Nast's cartoon of the U.S. contending with inflation might have been inked yesterday instead of in 1876. And the cartoon can provide a time capsule for the historian. New York Times Columnist William V. Shannon offers a sound, if wistful, prophecy when he foresees that "a hundred years from now, Herblock will be read...
Sprague held his tongue. But he finally decided to let loose after a local newspaper revealed that Fitzpatrick personally went into court to recommend probation for one Joseph F. Nardello, who had been convicted of receiving stolen goods. Sprague had wanted to recommend 21/2 to 5 years, but Fitzpatrick preferred the probation in exchange for Nardello's agreement not to attack the conviction. Newspapers then suggested another possible Fitzpatrick motive: they charged that the D.A. had once represented Nardello when in private practice...
After denials and clarifications, it developed that Fitzpatrick had actually represented a co-defendant of Nardello's in an extortion trial. When an appeal bearing the names of both defendants went to the Supreme Court, it was Fitzpatrick who argued the case. But he insists, "I have never represented Mr. Nardello." Besides, he told reporters, he was only following "staff recommendations" in backing the probation deal. But Sprague was certain that all involved staffers had opposed the move. (Fitzpatrick insists, however, that one staffer supported...
...Cover-Up. Then Fitzpatrick switched his story again. He had granted probation, he said, because of a plea-bargaining arrangement made by the previous administration. That did it, Sprague says. "I knew he was lying. My choice was either to be honest and tell the truth or keep my mouth shut." It was really no contest. "I decided that instead of participating in my own mini-Watergate, I'd tell the truth, not cover up and not sit tight with my nice job." The next reporter who happened to call got quite a story. Sprague made it clear that...