NEW JERSEY: New Boss in Town?

At 38, suave James Francis Murray Jr. is an accomplished attorney who speaks five languages and practices international law on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He is also a New Jersey state senator, has moderated radio's America's Town Meeting of the Air, co-authored a biography of Pope Pius XII, and finds time for relaxation with his attractive wife and five children. But like many an Irish boy brought up around the "Horseshoe" District of the late Frank Hague's sprawling, dirty Jersey City, Murray is a hard-rock politician at heart. Last week Jim Murray broke Hague Successor John V. Kenny's eight-year grip...

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