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Moving with relaxed urbanity through a round of activity that would faze most captains of industry, busy Preacher Sockman likes to paraphrase Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley: "It is my business to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable...
Dirty Foreigners. Two years of fighting had separated North from South with deep, bitter emotions. When youthful John Dooley, a Virginian soldier, compared the "dignified but most courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot...
Unfortunately Feathers?a night-lighted study of bums in Central Park?was as superior to Harrity's other work as it had been to the other fellows'. About all Harrity's other work could boast was that it brought Producer Dowling's wife, Ray Dooley, out of retirement and let her toss in, for oldtimers' sake, her famous Follies routine of a squalling infant. At week's end Hope was a thing of the past...
...first game was mild. Jim Dooley, Dartmouth right-hander, extended the Varsity's batting drought with a three-hit performance while his teammates rang up single tallies off Brendon Reilly in the first, third, and fourth frames. Relief pitcher Ira Godin was touched for the visitors' final two runs in the sixth...
...right hand at the new Institute, President Yount had picked ex-Lieut. Colonel Finley Peter Dunne Jr., 42, son of "Mr. Dooley's" creator, and Yount's wartime chief of A.A.F.T.C. student personnel...