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...YEARS OF IRISH PROSE (607 pp.)-Edited by Vivian Mercier and David H. Greene-Devin-Adair...
...first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty. O'Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every step is a literary...
Sheen did brilliantly at Louvain; he was the first American to win the Cardinal Mercier prize, awarded once a decade for the best philosophical treatise. In 1925, Louvain granted him the degree (he has eleven others) of which he is proudest-Agrégé en Philosophic (a kind of Ph.D. plus...
...Southern Pacific Railroad, the No. 2 U.S. road in trackage (12,441 miles),* prides itself on the fact that it trains its own brass. Its top officers have worked up from shirtsleeves, spent all their working years with the railroad. Last week, as President A. T. Mercier approached the compulsory retirement age of 70, Southern Pacific's directors had no trouble finding his successor: Donald J. Russell, 51, executive vice president, who moves into his new job in January as the youngest president in the railroad's history...
...Like Mercier, who began as a transit-man and roadmaster's clerk, Russell trained as an engineer at Stanford, started with Southern Pacific as timekeeper for a road gang, rose to assistant foreman of a section gang. As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant division superintendent to boss of the Los Angeles division in 1939. There he caught the eye of Mercier, who made him his assistant in 1941, groomed...