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...there is one thing Colin Middleton can't abide, it's "this long-haired, corduroy cult of artists." The stocky Irish painter prefers to wear his own hair trimmed short and to roll about Belfast and Dublin in hand-woven tweed plus-fours, red suede shoes and a black beret. His would be a notable figure in any landscape; in Ireland, which has produced hardly any painting worth the name,* Middleton is a current sensation...
Scentinel. In Belfast, the Ministry of Food, distressed at the prospect of poultry being illegally shipped to England, engaged a bull terrier to sniff at all outgoing packages...
...Belfast, a 110-lb. Irishman named Rinty Monaghan, who trains on goats' milk, became the world's flyweight boxing king. He creamed Jackie Paterson, a Scotsman, in the seventh round and Paterson sagged to the floor. As he was being counted out, Rinty did an enthusiastic jig in his corner, then led the crowd in singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The celebration continued at Rinty's home until a wellwisher, while demonstrating "how I would have handled Paterson," accidentally knocked the new champion cold...
...Home in Canada after six months journeying in Britain and Europe by car, I want to thank TIME for being in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Paris, the Riviera, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - keeping us informed not only of the events we were seeing but also of what was happening in the rest of the world where we weren...
Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...