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...last page contains the magazine's embryonic book review section: an urbane dissection by Robert Hirst '63 of a recent Dolphin anthology on the South. One hopes the Review will find space to expand this section in the near future...
...undernourished children are all part of the day's trouble at Trinity. Alcoholics are everywhere-even on the church staff. Joe O'Brien, the doorman, is a retired bartender who knows what it is to lose a weekend in the bottom of a glass. So do Charley Hirst, 51, Father Kern's secretary, and onetime Engineer John McCarthy, who runs the employment agency. Father Kern is an expert at straightening out "whisky priests...
...Jemmy Hirst was a wealthy, mid-19th century ex-tanner who developed an un-British distaste for the horse "excepting on the racecourse." Hippophobe Hirst went shooting mounted on a massive bull of "uncertain temper," and used in place of pointers "a crowd of vivacious and sagacious pigs, all of whom answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight...
Outraged, the secretaries drew up their own advice for bosses (sample: "Remember your secretary didn't hand you that 15th Scotch & soda the night before. Don't bring your hangover into the office. Maybe she had a bad night, too."). Snapped Delegate Augusta Hirst: "That compatible business applies to employers more than secretaries. The only syllable they recognize in the word is the second...
John Harburger and Frederic Hirst-known collectively as John-Frederics, creators of costly millinery trifles-ambiguously declared that Joan Crawford is positively Hollywood's "sexiest hat wearer." Maria Montez, they confided, is the "maddest...