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Early Life: Born in Newark on April 25, 1906, the son (one of eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
Wagner met and married Margaret Marie McTague, the Catholic daughter of Irish-born parents (during their courtship he almost lost her by taking her to Feltmans Restaurant on Coney Island and ordering steaks-only to be briskly informed that it was Friday night). When their only son was christened, Tammany District Leader Mike Cosgrove stood in as godfather-and Young Bob has never since been far removed from political influences...
Judith Hearne is an old maid whose soul drifts like flotsam on a landlocked sea of Irish malice. It is the impressive feat of First Novelist Brian Moore, an Irish-born Montreal newspaperman, to compel the reader to follow the course of this human driftwood to its last miserable beach. Author Moore believes with G. K. Chesterton of his native city that...
Waiting for Godot, by 50-year-old Irish-born Samuel Beckett, who was once a sort of secretary to James Joyce, is one more of those writings that pose philosophic question marks with the emphasis of exclamation points. Like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Kafka's The Castle and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Waiting for Godot makes who's who-and sometimes what's what-a kind of guessing game...
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel-TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin...