Insurance

Few human nervous systems have been better annealed against surprise than that of Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations. But last April 11, he received a telegram which might well have set his ganglia to twanging. In it one James J. O'Neill requested the privilege of moving U.N. from Hunter College in The Bronx to its new home at Lake Success, Long Island. His proposed fee: one dollar.

After a few deep breaths U.N. attaches did a little checking, discovered that stocky, 46-year-old Jimmy O'Neill not only meant what he said, but was capable of carrying out his offer. His Lincoln Warehouse Corp. had moved furniture for ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, many another famous New Yorker. It had carried out huge moving jobs for Tiffany's, General Electric, Radio Corporation of America. Happily, U.N. accepted.

Last week all was ready. U.N. was taking 50,000 articles--a library, records, furniture, etc.--to Long Island. O'Neill was going to move them over the weekend, would have to pay his crews double wages. Mulling over the estimated cost--$15,000 --fellow movers wondered if O'Neill was not carrying international good will a little too far.

But other Irishmen and horse players understood. Jimmy O'Neill had been having a run of good business luck, was betting that his philanthropic gesture would keep it from breaking.

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