Word: celt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...20th Century's "most English of the English" was really half Celt (on his mother's side)-and made a point of saying so when he was among Scots. "I remember that in my early days," Stanley Baldwin once said, "it was with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were...
Records & Races. No pure Celt, Christy Lynch was born at Rathkeale on the banks of the Deel, the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. He got his start as a singer in 1942 when he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater; the O'Maras, a wealthy meat-packing family in the audience, arranged for him to study in Dublin under McCormack's old teacher...
Though he was born at Rathkeale on the banks of the Deel, strapping Christy Lynch is no pure Celt. He is the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley. Then he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater, and a wealthy family named O'Mara was in the audience. The O'Maras sent their young find to Dublin to study under Dr. Vincent O'Brien, 74-year...
...Embalmed. Racially, says Baldwin, the Englishman was produced by combining the impulsive Celt and the reflective Saxon. The amalgam resulted in men who were half superstitious, half realistic. The superstitious half became concerned with ethical values, the realistic half with how to get ahead. Says Baldwin: ". . . Sound common sense taught him that in a practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed...
...London, Sir Arnold Trevor Bax, 58, was appointed Master of the King's Musick, the 21st in an unbroken line since Charles II re-established the post in 1660. Famed as a poetic Neo-Celt composer, Sir Arnold has. never been obliged to earn his living, has never held any office before. His new job, the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, has been a sinecure since Edward VII abolished State concerts...