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...heavy thud that follows is caused as much by Irish whisky as English bullets. It is this mixing of noble and ignoble motives that gives Insurrection its salty, human tang. By sticking close to the theme and laying it out in the plainest of prose styles, Author O'Flaherty gives the sharpest possible picture of Dublin bursting its buttons, its streets crisscrossed with an interweaving mob of poets, patriots, drunks, floozies, looters and sharpshooters. The result is not a great novel, nor even a very remarkable one, but it does suggest that the "Troubles" may go marching along...
Many of the songs and sketches have a slight English music-hall tang, but only occasionally do they seem a little wheezy. There are two excellent parodies in "It's About Time." "I and the King" aims some expert barbs at the more ludicrous elements in the current Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play. Miss Gingold, wearing a red wig, burlesques Gertrude Lawrence as Anna in two songs. Two lines from these songs might be quoted: "It's a beautiful morning in Bangkok--B-A-N-G-K--O K!" and "People will say we are us!" The other parody...
...Cope and Captain Walter Karig, and Sink 'Em All, by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood. Unfortunately, each book spills some of the drama in the detail, but they make clear that the undersea arm now has handsome traditions of its own. Examples: the stories of the Barb, the Tang and the Growler...
...Tang's favorite assignment was also "redirecting" Japanese shipping. But during a two-day air strike, Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane and his men were given a new job: fishing downed airmen out of Truk's big lagoon. The first day was relatively uneventful: only three saved in the teeth of enemy gunfire. On the second day, soon after dawn, the Tang picked up three airmen off fortified Ollan Island; a little later, three more, seven miles to the east. Then a Navy float plane, out on a similar mission, found the sea too choppy to take...
...went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...