Word: limerickization
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...year-old gaffer who got a pass from the geriatrics ward of Limerick City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across...
...Washington bureaucracy no man feels the need of touching the ground more than W. (for Warren) Randolph Burgess (no kin to the poet, whose limerick he likes to quote). As the Treasury's top money expert, Burgess dabbles in such weighty and occult fiscal matters as rediscount rates and refundings, deals in sums that would frighten a lesser man. As manager of the biggest peacetime financing in history, he must raise $65 billion this calendar year. Last week Congress promoted Moneyman Burgess from Deputy Secretary to the new post of Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs...
...limerick's lady of Kent, according to Louisville Times Managing Editor Norman Isaacs, 46, is not very different from many a newsman. Writing in the current issue of Quill, monthly magazine of the professional journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Editor Isaacs charged that more and more newsmen are succumbing to the compromising blandishments of pressagents, promoters, politicians and others whose objective with newsmen is always the same: to influence what is printed. Asked Isaacs: "How can we claim integrity when newspapers employ men whose services are for sale to outsiders...
...final count, De Valera was defeated largely on the issue of the price of a pint of beer. "Surely," he said to one heckling voter in Limerick, "there is more in the world than the pint." But to many an Irishman, wearied by years of heavy taxation and high prices, unimpressed by the government's high-sounding plans to "harness the winds and the tides" in expensive power projects, the i s. 3 d. pint of beer was the whole story. Since De Valera was responsible for it, De Valera must...
...Royal Tan, a ten-year-old gelding. Royal Tan is Irish-bred, owned, trained and ridden. His owner is J. H. Griffin, a 36-year-old candymaker from Templeogue, near Dublin. His jockey was a redhead named Bryan Marshall, who was born in Tipperary and raised in Limerick. His trainer was Vincent O'Brien from Tipperary...