Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imagination & Execution. Democratic Mayor James H. J. Tate, 57, a courtly Irishman with the instincts of a machine gunner, won in 1963 on the strength of Negro support. His obstinate opposition to neighborhood control of poverty funds turned both Washington and the Negro community against him. It also brought out the fighting instincts of City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 45, who will oppose Tate in the primary. Says N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore, himself running for mayor as an independent: "Tate will be retired to the position he's best qualified for: cesspool attendant...
Today Beers, 46, a burly, sandy-haired Scotch-Irishman, lives with his family in Petersburg, N.Y., on a 180-acre estate that was once the hideout for "Legs" Diamond during Prohibition. Last summer, in a leafy hollow on the estate, they launched the first annual Beers Family Festival of Traditional Music and Arts, at which more than 100 country musicians performed before 8,000 people...
Dodder Bank. When Joyce's Paris patron, Sylvia Beach, wrote to George Bernard Shaw, offering to sell him an early copy of Ulysses, Shaw replied: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained...
Kennedy clearly enjoyed Fay's company, and saw to it that it was never in short supply. An uninhibited California Irishman, Fay was invariably good for a laugh, whether singing Hooray for Hollywood in a Morton Downey tenor or cheerfully playing straight man to the Kennedy wit. "Grand Old Lovable," was Kennedy's name for his pal, and Fay strove to deserve it. One day at church the President, who rarely carried any money, leaned over to his friend. "Slip me at least a ten," he whispered to Fay. "I want them to know this is a generous...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The difficulty of severing the skeins to one's past is the theme in Brian Friel's delicately woven tapestry of a young Irishman saying farewell to his homeland...