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Stimulated Readers Sirs: It is no news to you that people for divers and sundry reasons read TIME. ... I read it . . . because it often contains articles like the one . . . about Brian O'Nolan (TIME, Aug 23) of Eire, whom I don't know from Adam and-and this is precisely the point-about whom I'd still know nothing but for TIME...
...spritely Keatsian reminiscences by Brian O'Nolan in your Aug. 23 issue recall that in his youth Keats took such a passionate interest in baseball he became regarded as a sage of the diamond, was often called upon to settle disputed matches...
...story is that of Francie Nolan from her twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
...views on Americans, whom he likes, were given a most favorable turn when Playwright William Saroyan turned up in Eire on a world tour "to see if it actually was a long way to Tipperary." O'Nolan thought that showed a refreshing curi osity. Saroyan told him that a better title for At Swim would have been Sweeney in the Trees (one character, cursed by a monk, lives in a tree). Later, Saroyan sent O'Nolan $50 for the suggested title...
...Nolan bought Irish Hospitals sweep stakes tickets with the windfall and sent half of the counterfoils to Saroyan. Nei ther won anything...