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When the deep-chested young singer from County Limerick had finished his arias and folk songs, the room clattered with applause. Even hearty old Tenor (and Papal Count) John McCormack said of 23-year-old Singer Christopher ("Christy") Lynch: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. ... A very beautiful voice ... I have not heard better in a quarter of a century...
This week Count McCormack was busily arranging for curly-haired Christy Lynch's operatic debut with the Dublin Grand Opera Society. "I want especially," said McCormack, "to see him make his first operatic appearance in Dublin . . . singing in The Tales of Hoffmann which I sang myself many years ago many times...
Though he was born at Rathkeale on the banks of the Deel, strapping Christy Lynch is no pure Celt. He is the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley. Then he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater, and a wealthy family named O'Mara was in the audience. The O'Maras sent their young find to Dublin to study under Dr. Vincent O'Brien, 74-year...
...They Lynch Up North. . . ." The Winds of Fear is better, as well as more timely, than most current best-selling novels. Its faults are the usual ones of a novel of its kind: in his worthy effort to be scrupulously just, Author Carter often sounds more like an honest broker than an imaginative novelist. Like most just men he sounds best when he lets go-as when Editor Mabry bellows: "They lynch up north, and a damn sight more people than we do. Only they call them race riots...
ELIZABETH NORRIS LYNCH Merion, Pa. ¶ TIME forwarded Reader Lynch's $50 check to ex-Army Air Forces Chaplain Ayers, now a Presbyterian pastor in Wilkes-Barre, who says he will use the money to develop an inter-faith committee on "religion and returning service personnel...