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...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...Side. The first miracle involves his own nature. He lived in dreams, and as a man of 58 he still knows the boyhood truth that all children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into...
...dozen places by nostalgic enemy soldiers, alone or in force, all pining to embrace their mothers and discover if the cow had calved." Eventually, the author himself began to long for home and Mother; aided by his native humor, he let go the "Shelleyan fantasy" of the Cork rebellion and settled in Dublin, with Mother, to try his hand at writing...
PEDDLING OF INFLUENCE by Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 60, onetime New Dealer turned wheedler for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., was not out of line, ruled congressional committee, after investigating Corcoran's private pleas to FPC commissioners to grant a Tennessee subsidiary a higher return in a rate case (TIME, May 23). Committee's Republican minority dissented, called the findings "the most shocking political whitewash in years...
...Dublin last week the Borden Co. announced that it has chosen a site in County Cork in the heart of Ireland's dairy country to build the biggest dry-milk plant it has ever constructed outside the U.S. The new plant, scheduled for completion next May, will cost $2,240,000, employ 50, and produce about 9,000,000 lbs. of dry whole-milk powder a year, chiefly for export to South America...