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Divorced. By Song & Dance Girl Judy (Over the Rainbow) Garland, 29: Movie Director Vincente Minnelli, 49; after nearly seven years of marriage, frequent separations, one daughter; in Los Angeles...
...Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose . . . [Speaking at Little Rock, Ark.-TIME, March 31]." No wonder it sounds oldfashioned. It's a rehash of an address to veterans of the Rainbow Division at a reunion in Washington in 1935. See Rovere and Schlesinger, The General and the President, page...
...plotline of Children of the Rainbow is not its lifeline: that is in the glow of living that runs through the book. Novelist MacMahon escapes the twin vices of Irish fiction, blarney and bathos, and he writes about his Ireland as if he had never so much as heard of Dublin's James Joyce and the sad, dark view he took...
...first novel, Author MacMahon, 42, casts a glad eye on youth, and on a time in the mid-'20s when "lives were so thronged with small beauties that you wouldn't think 'twas sons an' daughters of the flesh we were, but children of the rainbow dwellin' always in the mornin' of the world...
...children of the rainbow are 20-year-old Ches Macnamara, a saddler's son, and his friend Finn Dillon, whose studded belt marks him as "Prince of Cloone," the tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest...