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...same Father Corby. He resigned from the Notre Dame faculty in 1861 to become chaplain of General Thomas F. Meagher's famed Irish Brigade of New York, served the brigade as it fought heroically at Fair Oaks, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. The Gettysburg statue is a duplicate of the one at Notre Dame, where he returned after the war and served two terms (1866-72 and 1877-81) as president...
...junior year at Brooklyn College, Alfred met James Meagher, a poet who was a great inspiration to his writing. "In 1941, he sold a piano and started a magazine, The American Poet--with the grandiose idea that he could take any mass of writers and get one good poem, from children' jumping-rope rhymes to cerebral stuff. We got five hundred a week and only three of us to edit them . . . We had a sense that something great was going to happen, week after week, expecting a volley of applause . . . nothing would happen...
...mathematical feats much faster than it can report them. In two seconds, for instance, it can calculate the cubes of all numbers from i through 2,000, but it takes an hour and a quarter to write down the answers on an electrically operated typewriter. Professor Ralph E. Meagher and his staff hope to make the typewriter run five times as fast. Even so, ORDVAC will not be able to express itself freely...
From Wichita, Kans. to Kansas City, Mo. police, airline Hostess Dorothy Meagher wired: "I left electric cooker going in my room. Please have some one turn off electricity under beans. Police can have beans...
Cobb, 1930 victor in the half mile with a time of 1 mins 57 2-5 sec., will partner with Fobes against Jordan, O'Brien, and Carew of B. C., all clocked at 1 min., 57 sec. The mile run will see Hallowell last year's winner facing Meagher an Moynahan of the Eagles. Moynahan was 10 yards behind Hallowell last year...