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...DOOLEY REMEMBERS-THE INFORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE- edited by Philip Dunne. 307 pages. Little, Brown...
...bartenders love to sound off on politics, the blame can be put squarely on Mr. Dooley. It has been more than 30 years since this genial bartender with the rich Irish brogue dispensed his political wisdom in the nation's newspapers, but it still has a round, rich taste. In those days, Mr. Dooley was called the "wit and censor of the nation"; and his creator, that hard-drinking, fun-loving Chicago newspaperman, Finley Peter Dunne was the best political satirist the U.S. has ever produced...
...turn-of-the-century U.S. was ripe for satire, and Dunne missed few opportunities. The U.S. had developed imperial pretensions. There were "robber barons" and muckrakers, Prohibitionists and faith healers. Mr. Dooley matched wits with the mighty, and he usually put them down. One of the mightiest was Theodore Roosevelt, whose name Mr. Dooley always managed to mispronounce. "Whin Thaydore Rosenfelt kisses a baby," Mr. Dooley told his pal Hinissy, "thousands iv mothers in all corners of th' land hear th' report an' th' baby knows its been kissed an' bears...
Dunne's satire was a gentle nudge in the ribs, not a body blow. "Rayformers is in favor iv suppressin' ivrything," Mr. Dooley once said, "but rale pollyticians believes in suppressin' nawthin' but ivi-dence." A favorite Dooley target was John D. Rockefeller: "He looks afther his own money an' th' money iv other people. He takes it and puts it where it won' hurt thim an' they won't spoil it. He's a kind iv society f r th' previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored...
Harvard's Dave Dooley did the best fencing of his career as he racked up a pair of wins in the foil. Kent Brittan's accurate point scored two touches in epee, while Paul Zygas, mainstay on the sabre team, gave the Crimson another two wins...