Dunphy Appoints Phillip M. Cronin As City Solicitor

Acting City Manager Ralph J. Dunphy has appointed Cambridge attorney Phillip M. Cronin '53 to fill the post of City Solicitor vacated a week ago when Dunphy dismissed Andrew T. Trodden.

Cronin, a Cambridge native, was president of the Crimson in 1952-53. At that time, he reported the weekly meetings of the Cambridge City Council. He also worked as a police reporter with the Boston Globe before graduating from the Law School in 1956. He is now chairman of the Crimson's graduate board.

No Idea

He said yesterday that he has "no idea" whether he will remain as City Solicitor beyond mid-April, when Dunphy is due to be replaced by a permanent manager. "That would depend on his successor," Cronin commented.

The new solicitor had "no feelings--one way or the other" about the bitter division in the city council over the firing of former city manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29; but he hoped that it "would subside at some point."