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...modern unionism, where skilled laborers and craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A. President Theodore Loos and three other leaders from striking. Last week...
...most eagerly read column in Munich, appearing in the tabloid Abendzeitung, is written in breezy English by Gordon Francis Feehan, 38, a New England-born Irishman. Under the pen name of Frank Gordon, Feehan turns out his slangy, spangled Munich-Go-Round, that looks as startlingly Arnerican in its German context as Dinah Shore would among the Rhinemaidens...
...farce with a tragic ending is the characteristic Irish art form, the life and death of Sir Roger Casement make him a great Irishman. Many of his countrymen believe him to be so and periodically ask the British government to yield custody of his remains, which lie in quicklime within the walls of Pentonville Prison. Casement was hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles...
Author McNulty himself was no native Irishman, but a Massachusetts-born nar-rowback, a term used by the oldtime immigrants to describe the clerkly quality of their nonlaboring sons. Like a true narrowback, McNulty in his heart hungered for the lost village-and he found it in Third Avenue's vestiges of Irish life, in the awful cooking, the hatred of machinery, the acid yet basically gentle manner of one man to another. This last quality crops out in many stories: the querulous man who has to go into the Army without having anyone to say goodbye...
Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, Marquette University Law School Senior Michael Peter Murray Jr., 27, filed a petition to change his middle name to Patrick because "an Irishman named Patrick enjoys certain social and business advantages...