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...Casey at the Bat" [TIME, Nov. 15]: Being an Irishman, or partly one, I find it slightly painful [that] Sean O'Casey . . . respects a political organization which has slain and tortured uncounted millions all over their world-with their "inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialist efforts" . . . O'Casey may be a "roguish wordmonger," but so was Goebbels and Pravda ... He is entertaining, but he is also bitter . . . There is too much of his "failing desires" to make him palatable to anyone who knows there...
Like many another dashing Irishman, from Swift to George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde deemed it his destiny to invade England and take London by storm. He succeeded in fulfilling this destiny because he knew that though Britons never yield to force, they are ready to surrender the Bank of England itself to a man who can make them laugh...
Michigan: Democrat Patrick Vincent McNamara, 60, outdrew Senator Ferguson at the polls on the coattails of popular Governor "Soapy" Williams and with the help of unemployment in the automobile industry. A hearty Irishman with a toothy smile, McNamara is a member of the Detroit board of education, president of a local pipefitters' union and customers' contact man for a construction firm...
...know about love is like a knife in your heart.'' More Stones slows down ordinary life-which could be anywhere -for a good look at it; the Irish accent is merely the pleasantly accidental result of O'Connor's being an Irishman...
While all these important names moved through the headlines, a long-faced politician from the Democrats' Italian-American bloc and a gnarled Irishman watched with quiet interest. Carmine De Sapio and Charles Buckley are little known outside New York City, but they are big men in the rooms where New York Democratic decisions are made. De Sapio, Democratic national committeeman and the boss of Tammany Hall, will control at least 212 votes in the convention. U.S. Representative Buckley, boss of The Bronx, will walk in with 108. Some time before the convention begins on September 21, De Sapio...