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...STORY OF LOWRY MAEX-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($1.90). Epic broth from the marrowless bones of prehistoric Irish people (transition from Bronze to Iron Age). Harmless, charming, faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued to come for her food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...fight at Gabhra, Oisin was carried away to the land of eternal youth. Although he liked it there he was wishful to see again his beloved Ireland, find out the survivors of the Fianna. But he had been away 200 years. The pagan Ireland Oisin had known was gone. Padraic mac Alphurn (St. Patrick) and his bishops had Christianized everything in sight. Oisin and the new Ireland found each other incomprehensible. With St. Patrick alone he got along well, for they were both simple, both men of action. When it came to converting Oisin, however, even St. Patrick finally failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pagan Paladin | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...whirl of rumors, complaints, offers, conjectures, and lawsuits. Was Dempsey eligible to fight Tunney before he had fought black Harry Wills? The New York State Boxing Commission thought he was; the New York License Committee thought otherwise, refused to issue a license. Tex Rickard, promoter, thought he was; Padraic Mullins, manager of Wills, disagreed. Attorney General Albert Ottinger was asked to write opinions on points of law that would aforetime have been left to the bartender. Meanwhile at Saratoga Dempsey, growing rapidly browner and harder, continued to train, sometimes slipping off in the afternoon to see the horses run. Forty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...FORGE IN THE FOREST-Padraic Colum - Macmillan ($2.25). Celtic fairy tales for those children with brilliant imaginations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Barbadoes Gentleman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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