Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly personality and lively sense of humor, will make a creditable ambassador. Said a top State Department officer last week: "McLeod has learned a lot about the rules of the game and about international relations since he came here. He'll probably do a better job in Dublin than many people who might be picked from private life...
Tolling Bells. In much of the world Macmillan's decision was greeted with hope and delight. "At least and at last, negotiations that can mean something are in prospect," declared London's News Chronicle. From Dublin, Irish Premier Eamon de Valera sent Makarios a history of Eire's fight for independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets...
Died. John Butler (Jack B.) Yeats, 85, younger brother of the late Poet William Butler Yeats and Ireland's leading painter, known for his canvases filled with tinkers, tavern loafers, pirates and circus performers idling about Dublin's streets; in Dublin...
...York City being the biggest Irish (umpteen millions of actual or sentimental descent) and biggest Jewish (more than 2,000,000) community in the world, few events could set the town more on its ear than the arrival of Dublin's Jewish Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe for the St. Patrick's Day parade. On Fifth Avenue, green-cravated Mayor Briscoe. having gone to synagogue that morning, graced a reviewing stand that groaned with the weight of politicians and their relatives. Among the dignitaries: the city's Mayor
Meet the Press (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guest: Dublin Mayor Robert Briscoe...