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...fell vacant, Pius XI could handily acquaint himself with names of candidates for that windswept Canadian post. But instead of selecting some seasoned churchman the Pope picked a simple priest whose years-36-made him the world's youngest archbishop. The priest was Rev. James Charles McGuigan (pronounced Mick-gwiggan). At 40, Archbishop McGuigan is still younger than the 22 U. S. archbishops, the 13 Canadian archbishops. Last week Pius XI once more jumped this plump-faced, pince-nezzed prelate over innumerable heads, appointed him to the long-vacant archdiocese of Toronto, second largest (165,000 Catholics) English-speaking...
...trial before a military tribunal on charges of "incitement to murder the President." ( Indignantly General O'Duffy replied: " I emphatically deny that I, by word or implication or in any other way stated or suggested that 'Mr. de Valera is entitled to the fate he gave Mick Collins and Kevin O'Higgins.' Needless to say 1 would not stand for any such suggestion...
...quite wrongs, he climbs up again, richer than ever, politically popular, a grinning, driving top-dog with regrets but no remorse, and plenty of strong-man excuses, for his past. His wife comes back to him and the story leaves him making political capital out of his vulgar, underbred mick of a son by his first wife (a loyal little shop girl). Author Bronson handles the return of Junior Green & wife like a straight-harmony writer, reintroducing the original theme to shade, sour and yet enrich the final chord. More, he makes the bareness of his story, the concavity...
...Irish song. During the singing Mr. Phelan invariably wept. He then tipped the singer according to the copiousness of his tears. On the basis of these tips was compiled the above wage scale. The beneficiaries, who did not know Mr. Phelan's name, called him simply "The Big Mick from Down Town...
...large black box, invitingly open. At the starting signal a strong light is switched on behind the roaches, their covers removed. Mortally hating bright lights, the roaches run for the darkness of the boxes at the other end of the tracks. Last week's bitterest rival cockroaches were Mick the Miller, named for a famed British racing greyhound, and Man o'War, whose namesake was one of the greatest of U. S. racehorses...