MATTER OF McCANN v. KERN

Menahem Stim and Thomas J. Curran for petitioners, appellants. William C. Chanler, Corporation Counsel ( David DuVivier and Paxton Blair of counsel), for defendants, appellants. Samuel M. Birnbaum for American Legion, Department of New York, amicus curiae. Harold A. Felix for Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States et al., amici curiae. Frank S. Parmenter, Corporation Counsel, for City of Troy, amicus curiae. H. Eliot Kaplan for Richard Welling, intervener, defendant, respondent. Albert De Roode for John J. Tangney et al., amici curiae.