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...happy cartoon showing a trench-coated figure carrying a parcel with words, "It's the Jour d'Eté, and it's hot." An outfit called the Irish National Students Council boasted that two of its members had taken the picture. The night before, two young Irishmen got up on the roof of the Tate Gallery, but police had spotted them and set dogs on them. So next day the young vandals simply walked in, took down the picture wrapped it up and walked out. "We shall present it to the Municipal Gallery soon," they added...
...laugh at people any more. The dialect story is out. Stories about races and creeds are bootleg items. Only the Irish have not laid down the law, and the Irish joke has been damaged because people have found out that Pat and Mike were really not Irishmen. All Irishmen are named Sean ... All this leaves Texas as the thing that the U.S. people can laugh about without looking over their shoulder or lowering their voices, and it is a good thing. The people which can't laugh at itself is going crazy...
...posed almost nude for a bestselling booklet called Diana Dors in Three D. Clad in a mink bikini, she skimmed down Venice's Grand Canal on the prow of a gondola. Meanwhile, she worked hard to prove herself an expert mimic. She can skillfully play Cockneys, Scotsmen, Irishmen and Americans. Critics like her ("Her main gift is impertinence. Not only does she stimulate the libido, she also transmits charm . . . and is about as neurotic as an ice-cream cornet*"). The public takes...
Little was heard of the I.R.A. until last year, when a new generation of young Irishmen joined its secret ranks, thirsting for adventure and impatient of their political leaders' repeated assurances that partition can be abolished "by statesmanship, not force." Their first exploit was to raid the barracks of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Armagh, Northern Ireland, where they seized 300 guns. Shortly afterwards I.R.A. men broke into the projection rooms of two cinemas in Southern Ireland and forced the operators to flash slides on the screens proclaiming: "Join the I.R.A. We have the guns now." Hundreds joined...
...John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, took personal charge of the chase; airfields and ports were guarded, roadblocks set up. Before learning of the alarm, a police patrol car stopped a suspicious-looking truck near the racecourse at Ascot, recaptured a load of guns and arrested three Irishmen. But the others got away...