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Harper is advertising 44-year-old Edward McSorley's first novel as another Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The publisher is being very optimistic about it. McSorley's kind of people are like Betty Smith's, but perhaps only Betty Smith can make a Tree...
...Author McSorley tells how a broth of a boy grows in Providence, where an Irish Catholic apparently can live and scarcely ever hear of Protestants. The boy's chief experiences involve neighborhood toughs, his jolly dollop of a grandfather, and his dog, an old party who dies under a cloud (after biting a neighbor's daughter). All concerned murder the king's English, but in a grand, Gaelic manner...
...Harrington: Come-All-Ye's (Decca, 12 sides). Wonderful Irish folk classics sung with a brogue. Included are Paddy McGinty's Goat, Brannigan's Pup and McSorley's Two Beautiful Twins ("What an elegant time at the christening we had!"). Performance: good...
...Vatican has since learned a good deal more about Americanism, chiefly through contrast with Europe's long, convulsive decline toward economic ruin and moral anarchy. In the 19th Century, writes Historian Joseph McSorley of the Paulist Fathers, "clashes between Church and State occurred in every important country except the United States of America." In the 20th Century, "a large proportion of the working classes turned their backs upon the Church...
Gould likes to be interviewed, says "I make good copy." Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker treats Gould in "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon" where he spreads the fallacious (says Gould) story that Joe used to go into cafeterias and eat up a couples of bottles of ketchup, not because he liked it but because it was free...