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...enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety-boo, as vacationers crowded the beaches from Brighton to Belfast...
...money, Thomson acquires a five-sixths interest in the venerable, liberal Belfast Telegraph (circ. 196,000), biggest and best daily in Northern Ireland's overcrowded field, plus the Belfast Weekly Telegraph, the daily Telegraph's international edition, which circulates to Irishmen round the world. The deal also includes Ireland Saturday Night, a prosperous sports magazine with 100,000 subscribers, and two other thriving Irish weeklies...
...Detroiters reached the finals by outdistancing another Harvard crew, Eliot House. Despite inexperience and a borrowed, unfamiliar shell, the Eliot group had passed eights from Queen's University of Belfast and the Kensington Rowing Club...
...Hostage (by Brendan Behan) seems much less a play than a dramatization of its playwright: sprawling, shocking, howlingly off-key, marvelously in tune, humane and hilarious. What story there is turns on a young English soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin brothel against the Belfast hanging of an Irish patriot. Under Joan Littlewood's brilliant direction, this proves story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make...
...Luck of Ginger Coffey, by Brian Moore. The latest hero of wry, Belfast-born Canadian Novelist Moore is a Dublin-born, status-seeking New Canadian immigrant, whose life hovers between sad farce and sorry truth...