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...steady, old hands of both parties (e.g., the Massachusetts duo, Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Democratic Leader John McCormack) will be back. One old face that will be missing: the pudgy countenance of New York's Democratic Representative Donald L. O'Toole a Yiddish-speaking Irishman, whose Brooklyn district was carved into a new shape last year by the Republican state legislature. In the new district, which gerrymanders through Brooklyn taking in some safe G.O.P. territory, the veteran O'Toole (eight terms) lost to Republican Lawyer Francis E. Dorn...
...newly published book, St. Francis Xavier (Wicklow Press; $5), is a highly successful attempt to present the saint and his work stripped of the false romanticizing. The author, Father James Brodrick, 61, is a Jesuit himself. An Irishman who lives in England, he has spent most of his life writing readable but impeccably researched books on the history of the Jesuit order. In writing St. Francis Xavier, he has had the advantage of a mass of new material on Xavier's life, most of it compiled by fellow Jesuit scholars...
...House is a recreational and social center for over 300 Cambridge children ranging in age from seven to 17. Byrnes, a big ruddy-faced Irishman, is the only paid social worker. All other help must come from volunteers, in this case almost all from Brooks House...
...name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...
...acting varies from too much to none at all, McLaglen successfully straddles the two extremes, though his face permits the widest scowls and leers ever seen on a movie screen. Fitzgerald, of course, serves up his hoary characterization of the Lovable Old Irishman. Miss O'Hara looks fine herding sheep, but the scene in which she's frightened by lightning is probably the year's worst bit of acting. Wayne as usual is a capable hero...