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Soap and Soup. The Irish-born prelate and his cellmates, four Japanese criminals, spent a good part of each day mashing mosquitoes against the concrete walls of their 9-by-5½-ft. cell. It helped keep down the mosquitoes and it helped pass the time. Once a day the Bishop was escorted to a corridor washbasin - cold water and no soap. One morning a woman prisoner smilingly offered him a piece of soap. The gesture restored his waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop...
...Commandant. Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary--devout, genial, forceful, soldierly--has headed the Chaplain School since its reactivation at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., thirteen months ago. By virtue of his position he is one of the two chaplains in the Army who exercise command. Irish-born and Paris educated, he first donned khaki as a chaplain in the World War, entered Germany with the Army of Occupation, served two tours in the Philippines, rose with the expanding Armored Force from chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division...
...lunch was in honor of crusty, one-legged Pierre Boisson, Governor General of French West Africa (including the port of Dakar). The three men who joined him were Kansas-bred Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Irish-born Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander of Allied Naval Forces under Eisenhower, and Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan, newly self-proclaimed "Chief of State in French Africa...
Significantly, at week's end, the Mirror's biting Columnist "Cassandra"-burly, 32-year-old, Irish-born William Neil Connor -announced he was quitting to join the Army. Britain's most detested, adored, vastly read gadfly thus said farewell: "I am still a comparatively young man and I propose to see whether the rifle is a better weapon than the printed word. Mr. Morrison can have my pen-but not my conscience. Mr. Morrison can have my silence-but not my self-respect...
Down Mexico Way managed to be primer-like but not too cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...