Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After an easy victory in the 1,000-yd. run, Irishman Ron Delany of Villanova doggedly came from behind with a crowd-rousing sprint to win the exhausting two-mile event in the record time of 9:06.6, thereby became I.C-4-A's first such double winner. Olympic Champ Delany, the world's top miler, passed up his specialty to chase the extra points that came with two victories and cinched the team title for Villanova...
Family & Personality: Married 28 years, he is the father of three: William J. III, 23, a Marine Corps lieutenant; Hugh L., 20, a part-time college student; Nancy, 7. An affable, storytelling Irishman, Brennan has been called jaunty, dapper, lacking the austere aspect commonly associated with Justices. A much-sought after-dinner speaker, he also plays duffer golf (low 100s), likes to read American history, Plato, dime novels. Said his happy wife this week: "On Friday afternoon my husband called me from the office and said there was a telegram from the Attorney General. It said something about 'Come...
Irreverent Newcomer. For Daugherty has neither the portentous air nor commanding presence of the typical big-time football coach. He is cheerfully irreverent in a profession of solemn ulcer cases, a merry man with an Irishman's gregariousness and a leprechaun's smile. He has known the bitterness of defeat, when in 1954 he inherited a team of Big Ten co-champions and lost six out of nine games. He has known the joy of triumph, when his Spartans last year rolled over Big Ten opposition and into the Rose Bowl to defeat U.C.L.A...
...written a solid, slow, yet readable account. It is duller, but more complete, than Hesketh Pearson's brilliant portrait (1950). And it firmly supports Shaw's claim to being the greatest dramatist in the English language since Shakespeare-a claim recently supported by his erratic fellow Irishman, Sean O'Casey. Wrote O'Casey in a memorable tribute: "Look at the Theatre as it was . . . So sob-sisterly, so stupid, so down to dust was the Theatre then that God turned his back to it, made for Shaw, caught him by the beard, saying...
Grey Commander; George Nader, the Embittered Subordinate; Lex Barker, the Soft Socialite Hardened by War; William Reynolds, the Callow Youth Who Matures; Don Keefer, the Officer Who Goes to Pieces. Also present are the Good Padre, the Heroic Doctor, the Pugnacious Irishman and the Expectant Father...