Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawyer Fine had hung out his shingle in Wilkes-Barre, had enlisted and gone overseas in the A.E.F., studied at Dublin's Trinity College and come home again to Republican county politics. That year, T.R.'s ally, lean, aristocratic Gifford Pinchot, decided to run for governor of Pennsylvania. The great fighter for "conservation" against the heedless exploitation of the "robber barons" was Fine's political hero. Fine became Pinchot's state campaign manager...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...
Today her windows glitter in churches all over the British Isles, and she has turned out everything from a somber, Rouaultish window for a Dublin Roman Catholic military chapel, to a greenish-gold abstract for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. A Catholic in a Protestant family, she lives alone, ventures out seldom. "I have to save what energy I have for my work," she explains. Her one extravagance is Paris ("My excuse is to buy glass"), and twice a year she can be seen rambling around Montparnasse, a tiny figure in mannish tweeds puffing...
...other side of the medal presented by Dr. Dublin offered positive encouragement to reduce: among 6,000 people studied who had reduced and stayed reduced, the men's death rate was cut by one-fifth, the women's by one-third...
When Poet George William Russell was a young man in Victorian Dublin, he wrote a philosophic article under the pseudonym "Æon." The printer mangled it, and Æon came out Æ. For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong. Outdistanced as a poet by such contemporaries as Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats, Æ culled through his verses not long before his death (in 1935) and selected 124 that he hoped he might be remembered for. Last week his Selected Poems achieved the semiclassic permanence of republication in the Golden Treasury Series (Macmillan; $1.25), along with...