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When he begins to speak of the war itself, its past, its future, McGuire uses phrases which seem slightly trite on paper, but which are probably just the honest opinions of an Irishman who has been around a bit. "It's just like any other war," he says, "they never solve anything, it never does any good." The war's origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention...
Best of the bunch is Pete Rose, 26, a brassy, bristle-topped Irishman, whose flip tongue and frenetic brand of baseball have injected fresh breath into an increasingly stale game. His zest once branded him a showoff. "In the minors, they called me 'Hot Dog' and 'Hollywood,' " he snorts, "but they don't holler at me in the majors." They certainly don't. Spraying hits from either side of the plate, Rightfielder Rose has batted better than .300 in each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting...
When he begins to speak of the war itself, its past, its future, McGuire uses phrases which seem slightly trite on paper, but which are probably just the honest opinions of an Irishman who has been around a bit. "It's just like any other war," he says, "they never solve anything, it never does any good." The war's origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention...
Crowded into such blighted slum areas as Manhattan's "Bloody Ould Sixth Ward," the unskilled and uneducated Irishman was the social outcast of the time. Terrorized by slum gangs (the Dead Rabbits and the Patsey Conroys), shunned by native Americans who despised his rough, alien ways, his papist religion and his uncouth brogue, the average Irish immigrant had to work at the most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled...
...February 1927. The answer was yes, and Hall, Ryan's only engineer, was as good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage, in 1959 became its chief judge, and last...