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McManama led the Crimson in scoring this year with 51 points, edging out linemate Bill Cork y, who had 50 points. McNamama scored ten goals in his last 14 games...
...Imagine the poor devils down at the KGB sitting listening to all the parties tonight and not a drop to drink," said one Western diplomat, raising another glass. A few minutes later the phone rang and the host answered. He heard no voice-only the unmistakable pop of a cork and the glug-glug pouring of champagne. Then the callers, anonymous as ever, hung...
...that time MacStiofáin, in the tenth day of his strike, was described by his wife Mary as a "dying man." MacStiofáin, boasted Provisional leaders, would become a martyr, like Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork, who was arrested at an I.R.A. meeting in 1920 and died in a British prison in the 74th day of a hunger strike. In MacStiofáin's place, they predicted, "a hundred other MacStiofáins" would rise...
...into No. 13, a heavily researched historical novel about Aaron Burr, best known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel but also the man who dreamed of establishing his own empire in Mexico. Vidal has completed the first draft, doing much of the work at his farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland. (It is an integrated neighborhood: just over the hill, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is preparing a retirement home...
...MOST OF JOHN HELD JR. 144 pages. Stephen Greene. $19.95. Half a century has not diminished the charm of John Held Jr.'s prototypical leggy flappers or dulled the gaiety of their cork-nosed, raccoon-coated boy friends. This well-produced selection also includes his little-known, deft watercolors and woodcut cartoons that gently mock the 1890s ("Horse whipping the masher and good for him"). Shallow stuff, but as Held would say, ah, those dear dim days...