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...Kelly Shannon drifts along in happy anonymity in Congress, spending his weekends playing rough games with his large, noisy, competitive family, until Papa becomes obsessed with this dream of putting him in the White House. Enough money lavished in the right places brings Kelly a thick folder containing evidence of corruption in high places. Soon he is a fixture on TV, the most talked-about young politician in the country. In fact, the path to the White House seems clear until Kelly runs headlong into his own conscience...
After a couple of chapters, it becomes apparent that the Shannon family is strictly fictitious and any resemblance to a real American family is coincidental - or, at any rate, deplorable. But Old Hearst Newsman Horan, who has knocked out 24 books (King's Rebel, The Great American West) since 1942, is obviously trying hard to create the impression that he is writing a roman à clef about the Kennedys. For this reason alone, his account of money as the lubricant of U.S. politics just might become the most ineptly written bestseller of the month...
...Hats Off to Larry, Del Shannon...
...that goes to Dublin's Trinity College, Celbridge Abbey and Kilkenny City. The old sod expects a record year, including visits from Jacqueline Kennedy and 31 members of Chicago's Grandmothers' Club. Awaiting them will be everything from a $95-a-week "floatel" on the River Shannon to an army of newly popular pub balladeers and manorial dinners which will be served in medieval castles...
...less than $1,000,000 and played by a group of actors no better known in the U.S. than any man jack in the Dublin telephone directory. It offers the spectator about as much of Joyce's "chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle" as a two-hour stopover at Shannon would offer him of Ireland. It is honest, mildly sensational, and for the most part intelligent: a pictorial précis of the novel that may not be the best but is certainly far from the worst movie version imaginable...