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After the long emotional excitement of the fight for independence, Ireland in the postwar years seemed to be hibernating, caught in a descending spiral of cynicism and feckless nostalgia. Its malaise was expressed by Playwright Sean O'Casey: "Someone or something is ruining us. What do we send out to the world now but woeful things-young lads and lassies, porther, greyhounds, sweep tickets, and the shamrock green? We've scatthered ourselves over the wide world, and left our own sweet land thin. We're just standing on our knees now." Bloody Baluba. Today the Irish...
...Eddie Casey Resigns...
Harvard lost to Yale that year, by 10 to 0; and in the succeeding weeks the Harvard sports situation suffered another serious blow with resignation of head football coach Eddie Casey after nine years...
...each turn. It was all in vain. The crowd greeted each name with a round of approval, especially heavy for such favorites as Douglas MacArthur, Cuban Exile Leader José Miró Cardona, Jonas Salk, Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi, General Omar Bradley, Judge Harold Medina and Casey Stengel. By the time Hope took over, midnight was near and introductions had to be com pressed to a simple announcement of each cover subject's name. But characteristically, Hope could not resist bringing the party back to a laughing mood. "I know it is one of these speed things...
When New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel and his wife Edna arrived, Mrs. Stengel announced: "I'm Mrs. Stengel. We're in baseball." After Theologian Tillich's speech at the Monday dinner, Casey, in his own conversational style, offered his interpretation to the guests at his table. They were bewildered...