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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jig on the Trap | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Civil Servant. In Mountjoy, Ont., Wilf Perreault, fed up, resigned from his job as the town's police chief, fire warden, dogcatcher, tax collector, poundkeeper, building inspector, liquor inspector, fence viewer, cemetery inspector, weight inspector and school attendance officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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