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...MOON GAFFNEY (289 pp.) - Harry Sylvester-Holt...
...third mark last week, the leading pitcher was neither Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Harry Brecheen nor Ewell Blackwell, nor any of the other established celebrities of the mound. On the figures, the best pitcher was a hooknosed, six-foot left-hander named Warren Spahn; habitat Braves Field, Gaffney Street, Boston...
...York City life is dedicated to a group of "good Catholic radicals" and to the proposition that the city has too many blinkered Catholic reactionaries. "I like everything about the Church except the people who run it, or try to run it," says a character in Moon Gaffney; "until we become at least as ashamed of our hate as we are of our lust, we Catholics are going...
...Tommy Gallagher's Crusade, James T. Farrell beat his readers over the head with a poleax to make much the same point. Novelist Harry Sylvester, born in Brooklyn and schooled at Notre Dame, is considerably subtler as a storyteller, though hardly more graceful as a writer. Aloysius ("Moon") Gaffney is no anti-Semitic bullyboy like Tommy Gallagher, but a young Manhattan Irishman with a Fordham law degree and large horizons. With luck he will soon become an Assemblyman in Albany, and perhaps in time even sit in the big chair in New York's City Hall...
...Labor Department lists three older strikes: California redwood workers (September 1945); textile workers at the Gaffney Mfg. Co., Gaffney, S. C. (September 1945); seven railroad unions at the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad (October...