Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Jim Hagerty effusion: if Elvis Presley were a member of the Eisenhower team, I have no doubt that his face would appear on your cover along with an article describing him as a great singer...
...proud of Jim Hagerty. He treats representatives of all news media-radio, TV, newsreels-with the same fairness accorded the printed (press) media...
...Braun smiled. The Explorer was late, he concluded, because it had shot farther out into space than had been expected, thus had to travel the extra distance of its elongated elliptical orbit. "It's fine, fine," he murmured. At 12:44 Andy Goodpaster passed the word to Jim Hagerty: "It's in orbit." Hagerty called the President. Said Ike: "That's wonderful...
...Artist as Priest. Schooled by Jesuits from the age of six, Jim was "God-intoxicated," and Stanislaus was keen enough to recognize that Joyce remained God-intoxicated though he changed gods. The work of art became his religious passion. It was this, says Stanislaus, that prompted Jim as a stripling to say to the mature Yeats: "I regret that you are too old to be influenced by me." Argues Stanislaus: "What my brother said, or meant to say . . . was in plain words that Yeats did not hold his head high enough for a poet of his stature, that he made...
Stanislaus became indignant when Jim took to boozing and wenching with Oliver St. John Gogarty, the "stately plump Buck Mulligan" of Ulysses. Recalls Stanislaus of his brother: "I hated to see him glossy-eyed and slobbery-mouthed." Gogarty confessed to another friend that he wanted "to make Joyce drink in order to break his spirit," and celebrated the occasions of sin with a limerick...