Word: shillelagh
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...King of Friday's Men (by Michael Molloy; produced by Michael Grace) is about as Irish as plays come-even out of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre. It is a gaudily romantic period piece about a homely 18th Century shillelagh fighter who turns up in the west of Ireland just as a great landlord is about to seize a pretty young peasant girl for his pleasure. When the girl (Maggie McNamara) pretends love for the brawny shillelagh-swinging Dowd (Walter Macken), he cheerfully whips the landlord's entire press gang. But though Dowd eventually wins the girl...
...Mayor of Boston James M. Curley, 75, pardoned recently by President Truman (he spent five months in jail for mail fraud in 1947), was back in "God's country-Boston," after an extensive tour of Europe. Swinging a blackthorn shillelagh, Democrat Curley announced that he would be a candidate next year for a fifth term as mayor of Boston. About that fraud conviction? "Probably just a case of Mr. Roosevelt wanting to smear...
More aggressively Irish than a swinging shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...
...sacrifice. And here too, patriotic Americans are not unmindful of their rich heritage. Tonight in Boston's streets, citizens will gather together in hearty bands. Glorious pageantry will ensue. Some will take the part of the British; some will don quaint Gaelic costumes and take up the storied shillelagh. And the famous contests of former days will once more enliven local byways, as the loyal sons of the sod relive the glories of Saint Patrick and the defeat of the Orangemen...
Take That. For a mild man, and the begetter of Friendship Trains, Drew Pearson has had more drawn-out feuds than an Irishman could shake a shillelagh at. The loudest was the one with Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, which started when Tydings called for. a Senate investigation of father Paul Pearson's regime as governor of the Virgin Islands...