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Died. James Patrick McGranery, 67, U.S. Attorney General in the Truman Administration's last year, a onetime New Deal Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia (1936-43) who was brought in to clean house in the Justice Department after Truman fired his predecessor, J. Howard McGrath; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...
...Summum Bonum. When he entered Harvard, in 1932, David began to grow up socially. A friend remembers that "he was a pudgy 17, and every ambitious mother in Boston was pushing her daughter at him." At a dance during his freshman year, he met Peggy McGrath, the vivacious daughter of New York Lawyer F. Sims McGrath. Eight years later he married her, after a courtship consisting largely of dancing dates ("He is still the dreamiest waltzer in the world," says Peggy) and endless phone calls...
...Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: A pre-Broadway tryout by John Fritz, When the Beer Goes National, with Paul McGrath and Frances Reid...
Turning to corruption in Massachusetts, Gleason pointed to instances of "staggering greed" among State and Boston officials. With tongue in cheek, he praised the "ingenuity" of John J. McGrath a former city auctioneer. According to Gleason McGrath until a few weeks ago made a habit of selling city-owned real estate to himself. If not illegal, this was "a plain conflict of interest," asserted Gleason...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Cliff Robertson, Paul McGrath and Salome Jens in a play by Robert Alan Aurthur about a onetime child prodigy who has become a recluse...