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...passenger on the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last week was as weather-beaten, ageless and nondescript as a chunk of driftwood. Like the driftwood, he seemed doomed to float from shore to shore on the China Sea forever. He had no passport. His name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...
...does it so you never feel it hurt." In 1949, while Barkley was presiding over the Senate, he ruled against his Southern friends in an attempt to cut off a Southern filibuster. But he lost not a friend thereby. He set the tone by reaching for one of his ageless stories. "I feel," he said, "somewhat like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he liked it, and he said that if it were not for the honor of the thing, he would just as soon walk...
...began writing the dialogue again in 1948. Somehow much of Barnaby's appeal disappeared, and the number of papers fell off by almost half. Last week Johnson announced that next month he will end Barnaby altogether. Although Barnaby readers always assumed that the child was ageless, Johnson said not so. Barnaby is finally growing up. He will soon reach his sixth birthday, and six-year-olds need no fairy godfathers...
...varying degrees, these characters all come to terms with life, and into balance with themselves, through a subtle mingling of their experience and the symbolic lesson of their surroundings: the serene, endless flow of the river, the patient, ageless ways of the people in the boats, the bazaars and the temples...
Very little of old Boston is left in Scollay Square, but what does remain seems to be ageless. The greatest staying power is found in the bars that line the Square and the alleys that lead out of it. Boston's first taprooms were located in the area, and if the current population has anything to say about it. Boston's last taprooms will be there...