Word: gilligan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laude. In Detroit, the law caught up with 1) Tony Ria, who had flunked five exams for the police force and passed a sixth, 2) Robert Gilligan, who had taken Ria's physical for him, 3) Joseph Sakow, who had taken Ria's written exam...
Broad-beamed, baric Edmund Gilligan (White Sails Crowding) knows a lot about sailing vessels, good violent storytelling, and wild Irish prose. In The Gaunt Woman his triple talents are contributed to the war effort with a driving energy that sometimes bruises the story and the prose. But the book as a whole has the glow and momentum of a particularly likable Grade B movie...
When Edmund Gilligan is at his best, as in White Sails Crowding, he is one of few men living who can galvanize the dying art of literate romancing. But in The Gaunt Woman his Hibernian lilt and lustiness often overshoot the mark. Like most Irish storytellers, he must beware of riding with his Erse too high...
Cerrone, Hasslinger, Naylor, and Gilligan will play along with Myers for the Lions. Captain Charley Lutz and probably Bill Webber will play the forwards for the Crimson, with Sam "Don Junn" White at center, and Bud Finegan, Ed Buckley, and Joe Romano sharing the guard positions...