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With the same offhanded shrug, he dismisses the spectre of such early-squandered arms as Bob MacCool and Wally Bunker. "It doesn't bother me. I'll just go out and do my thing once or twice a week. They're taking good care...

Author: By Phillip Weiss, | Title: Texas Southpaw Clyde Wows Boston; 18-Year-Old Not Fazed by Pressure | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

...less outlandish and surprising than if Finn MacCool, his long-legged self, had turned around in the middle of his runnin' lep from the Giant's Causeway and said: "The Sassenach are a fine, fair-minded and glorious people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Wonderful | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...MACCOOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...MacCool could also hit. To qualify for the Fianna, a band of soldiers in the service of Cormac Mac Art, Ireland's illustrious Third-Century king, he was buried to the knees as a target for nine warriors. With a shield and hazel stick, Finn knocked their spears aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: MacCool's the Name | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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