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...Cambridge University track team: its 63rd annual meet with Oxford, 8 first places to 3. Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile...
...Virtue of Idleness." Irishman George William Russell ("AE") declared in Manhattan: "I've a complaint against he U. S. It arises out of Longfellow's 'Psalm of Life.' That poem is drilled into every child. They never forget . . . the line 'let us then be up and doing' and America has been 'up and doing' ever since. That is the cause of all your economic problems. You are working people so hard that you have, naturally, overproduction. You should cultivate the adorable virtue of idleness...
This versatile and famous Irishman, now in his sixties, came from a poor family. His early ambition to be a painter could not be fulfilled, because it would mean long study in schools and much money to support him. His family could not afford this, and Russell went to work in an accounting office. He was not able to take up painting until he was over forty years...
George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, Illinois, has won for American Sinclair Lowis the Noble prize for literature. Irishman Bernard Shaw and Indian Rudyard Kipling are the only other English writing authors to be raised by these letters of nobility. This graceful gesture to contemporary American literature is something of a compliment. The United States is not usually looked upon as a nation of letters...
Calvin Coolidge has his thousands and Al Smith his tens of thousands. That one is an enigmatic Yankee and the other a simple Irishman is far more important to their followers than the issues which they personify. In the not too distant past these men held of flee. They were symbols of the beliefs of two great parties, a fact which now means little to the cheering multitudes it is enough that they were something...