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...WILFRID SHEED...
...pages. Sheed & Ward...
George Santayana, that New England Spaniard, was such an outside-insider. So is Wilfrid Sheed, who-to his public's edification and entertainment -cannot make up his mind whether he will sound like an Oxford-trained critic, an Irish pub wit, a defrocked Catholic priest or a simply first-rate novelist. In any role, he is never more than, say, three-quarters American...
This time, in three long articles, Sheed studies American character collectively, as men-in-groups: the labor movement, the Catholic Church, the Mafia. Though developed, as a great many of Sheed's essays are today, from book reviews (the last piece is an exception), Three Mobs is not your ordinary journalistic wrapup, to say the least. Readers who are dying to know the number of dock strikes in 1962, or finger an organization chart of the Mafia hierarchy, or check back on the minutes of Vatican II will not find The Facts here. To read Sheed is, rather...
...question should be: Do you want this man to go to bat for you?" The former semipro ballplayer in Minnesota's Great Soo League was fresh from a personal success on the playing fields of East Hampton, L.I. Invited to join George Plimpton, Peter Mathiessen and Wilfrid Sheed on the writers' team in an annual charity softball game between writers and artists, Poet McCarthy went three for three against strong opposition that included Fabric Designer Boris Kroll and Painters Syd Solomon and Jimmy Ernst. One line drive could have been a home run if McCarthy had not stumbled...