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...DOOLEY REMEMBERS - THE INFORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE, edited by Philip Dunne. An affectionate portrait oJ Martin Dooley, the imaginary Irish bar tender in Chicago, and his creator, Newspaperman Finley Dunne, who put in Dooley's mouth some of America's best political humor...
...Kirsh, Dave Dooley, and Paul Zygas led the Crimson to their victory. Between them they accounted for nine of the Crimson's 22 points...
Down on Gin & Joyce. By the time Dunne got around to writing his memoirs in 1935 (published now by his son), he had given up Mr. Dooley, and his humor had soured somewhat. He wrote his memoirs in plain cantankerous English; there was less Irish charm and more Irish temper. To begin with, Dunne felt ill at ease writing about himself without Mr. Dooley as a shield: "Disrobing in public is not to my taste. There are intellectual and spiritual pudenda as well as physical. The more clothes I put on, the better I look. I plead guilty to preferring...
Conversion to Capitalism. While he was writing Mr. Dooley, Dunne had been the scourge of Wall Street and all its "malefactors of great wealth." But when fame came his way, Dunne preferred the company of Wall Streeters. When he managed to go broke at the height of the bull market in the 1920s, his well-placed friends bailed him out, and one left him a legacy of half a million. In his memoirs, Dunne describes how he pushed Harding for the presidency for no better reason than that he looked like a President and had a noble handshake...
...Dunne deserves to be remembered for his more lighthearted days, when not even Montaigne was Mr. Dooley's master: "Thrust ivrybody but cut th' ca-ards." "A vote on th' talleysheet is worth two in th' box." "Most vigi-taryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannybals...