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WILLIAM J. MCENERY National Vice President Ancient Order of Hibernians in America Providence...
...succeeds-and his goals in the past have been set far short of actual performance-the nation will have traveled a long way from "the unfortunate country" of Ireland's ancient lament. The varied and lively virtues of the Irish, which in the past have often shaded into weaknesses when they were not vigorously applied to a cause, are the nation's best assurance that it can find the future it seeks for itself. However bright the goal, Ireland will still be many light-years away from the Blest Isle. But-who knows?-they may have their Troubles...
...gods whistle in the air," wrote Sean O'Faolain. "The Otherworld is always at one's shoulder." The Otherworld and the real past are inseparably bound together in the Irish imagination and in the runic place names, from the pagan landmark called Two Breasts of Dana to ancient Waterford, where in 1170 Strongbow, the Norman Earl of Pembroke, clamped 71 centuries of English rule on Ireland. What the mists of legend cannot obscure is that for ages of religious persecution and economic exploitation, through countless risings and reprisals, the Irish slaved, starved and battled for their land...
...Balliol graduates (Prime Minister Macmillan excused himself to dine with J.F.K.) from Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to King Olaf of Norway and Boston Financier William Appleton Coolidge. Whether or not Balliol really was 700-an agreed age more than a historic fact-they cheerily drank the ancient toast, Floreat dornus de Balliolo, meaning roughly, boola, boola Balliol...
Died. Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 49, 23rd Baron Audley, sometime playwright, heir to one of England's most ancient titles (dating back to 1313) and third husband (of 13 months) of Actress Sarah Churchill, Sir Winston's star-crossed daughter (her first husband, Comedian Vic Oliver, divorced her in 1945; her second, Society Photographer Antony Beauchamp, committed suicide in 1957); of a heart attack; in Granada, Spain...