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...MAGIC PEOPLE: AN IRISHMAN APPRAISES THE JEWS (158 pp.)-Arland Ussher-Devin-Adair...
Seldom brilliant, but always steady, Chapman ousted Irishman Joe Carr in one semifinal, while another former U.S. amateur champion (1949), Charley Coe, was beating Welshman Albert Evans to make it the third all-American finish in five years. In the final, after the first eighteen holes against younger (27) and longer-hitting Coe, Dick Chapman led 2-up, with a two-under-par 70 over the soggy, windswept Royal Porthcawl course...
Professor John Lighten Synge (rhymes with ring) is a bald-domed, red-mustached Irishman whose English ancestors moved to the ould sod so long ago (1600s) that Red Hugh himself ought to forgive him their origin. For 22 years, off & on, he has taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John...
...practiced, and survived, several sorts of poetry, and in each phase he was first-rate. His fame gathered and hung above him during his own lifetime. Ireland, which is not always proud of its writers, was proud of him. Eire made him a Senator. He was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize. When, in 1940, Poet T. S. Eliot delivered the First Annual Yeats Lecture in Dublin's Abbey Theater, he called Yeats "the greatest poet of our time-certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language...
...story of the Irish rebellion has been told so often that any Irishman who wants to tell it again should first issue the general invitation, "Stop me if you've heard it." But Ireland's Liam O'Flaherty, author of that fine old favorite, The Informer (which a lot of people think was written by Victor McLaglen), takes up the theme as if no O'Faolain, O'Casey or O'Flaherty had ever played a variation on it before-and in two ticks he has the frayed old harp twanging away as rich...