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...father was Patrick McCarran, who left Ireland as a stowaway at 16, joined the First U.S. Dragoons, went to Nevada to fight Chief Winnemucca's Paiutes, and stayed on as a homestead rancher. His mother was Margaret Shea of County Cork, who came to Nevada as a domestic servant. From his parents young Patrick Anthony inherited a fighting spirit and a love of politics. In addition, he cultivated a trait not generally associated with the Irish: patience...
Sticky End. Irish-born (County Derry) Bill Connor has been Cassandra ever since he started in newspapering on the Mirror in 1935. The son of a civil servant, Cassandra did a variety of odd jobs until Mirror editors, intrigued by his arrogant, self-assured, insulting ways, gave him a job as a columnist. Cassandra ("One of those titles cooked up in a pub") was an overnight success. He also got the paper into very hot water, which is just where the saucy, sensational Mirror likes...
Whitman's appraisal of Eakins still stands. Next to Winslow Homer, Eakins (1844-1916) is the finest painter America has produced, and is still sneered at by some "professional elects." Eakins made art the servant of honesty; he chose showing over showiness, and thereby earned the lasting admiration of men who, like Whitman, place the true even higher than they do the beautiful...
Even within Herr Schaffer's limits, there are other rules and proscriptions. No civil servant below the rank of minister or state secretary, for instance, will be allowed to have carpets, vases of flowers, window curtains that reach to the floor...
...they were all related in one way or another, making the trip a family party, Cousin Frederika ordained that everything should be informal. Only 85-year-old Prince George of Greece (whose Bonaparte wife is one of France's leading psychoanalysts) was allowed to bring along a personal servant. Formal dress and court protocol were forbidden, and the seating arrangements for each day's meals were drawn democratically...