Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frank O'Connor (real name: Michael O'Donovan), 62, consummate Irish storyteller; of a heart attack; in Dublin. The son of a Cork laborer, O'Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education...
Died. James Edward ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, 91, grand and cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from...
...Mooney, not money. Meaning Tom Mooney, labor's biggest martyr of the '20s and '30s, sentenced to death when convicted with Warren K. Billings of killing ten people in 1916's San Francisco Preparedness Parade, eventually released from prison...
...STROLLIN' '20s (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Langston Hughes's memento of Harlem, with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll and Duke Ellington...
...Only Way. John Joseph Broderick came by his talents naturally enough. He grew up in Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest...