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...this-that his mettle has come nearer the heat of genuine adventure than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member...
...Protestants of Northern Ireland, this authority seems not only insufficient but provocative. They were boiling mad last week, and Viscount Craigavon, their Premier, was playing host in Belfast to new United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. If there should be fighting as a result of the new Constitution, Secretary Hore-Belisha will have well surveyed the Irish ground...
...Irish Republican Army, Ireland's most fanatical antiRoyalist group, have long been a headache to the Government of Northern Ireland. According to Belfast's police, they staged the burnings, beatings and bombings specially arranged for the State visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth (TIME, Aug. 9). They were accused last week of another outrage: attacking a man's home when his person is not available...
...last week, while Sir Dawson was in Belfast, three masked raiders called at his home, Magherabuoy House, Portrush. Briefly, but effectively, they beat his servants with revolver butts, ravished his desk, scattered his papers, turned his house inside out. Police astutely concluded that they had been searching for embarrassing evidence of recent burnings, beatings, bombings-evidence on the strength of which Sir Dawson might feel inclined once more to make use of the Civil Authorities...
Your recent article [TIME, July 12] about digging worms in Maine omits one interesting detail. On the road running between Belfast and Waterville and between Belfast and Augusta, I have more than once seen signs reading "Cornfed night crawlers." The first time I saw this sign, I was puzzled and stopped to ask a farmer what it meant. "Worms, and fat ones," he explained with scorn for my ignorance...