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Sean O'Casey is a literary salmon who splashed out of a Dublin slum, leaped the rapids of poverty, and has never stopped swimming stubbornly upstream to spawn his silvery prose. Sunset and Evening Star is the sixth and final volume of his lively, third-person autobiography. With cantankerous, merry and garrulous gusto, the 74-year-old O'Casey evokes the great shades of Irish letters-Yeats, Shaw, Joyce-without fully clinching his eventual right to join them. But "bad or good, right or wrong, O'Casey's always himself," probably the world's greatest...
Butler and one other man had walked about six miles upstream one day and had waded across the Charley to the other side. Later, when Butler wanted to get back to camp and get his boat, he decided to swim the river--about 25 yards across. Two-thirds across, he suddenly called for help and then disappeared from sight. Although officials spent several weeks searching the river no trace was found. A cross was erected at the side of the river
...Manhattan, George Hopper, a meat packer from East St. Louis, Ill., hopped into the Hudson River, arms handcuffed behind him, and towed a canoe and two passengers six miles (swimming upstream) to the Jersey shore. Motive: he hoped to earn himself an invitation for a paid TV appearance to help pay for "surgery" for his two sons...
...junior varsity for the second two, the Crimson varsity eight, stroked by Larry Brewnell, finished strong in its three preface tests over the four mile course. The longest time, rowed against a slight headwind and through changing tide, was 22.19. Two of the trials were downstream, and the third upstream...
This week President Eisenhower is expected to sign the bill into law and start setting up the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. to handle negotiations with Canada and supervise construction. Six years from now, if all goes well, ocean freighters will be churning upstream from Montreal...