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...wife Nora (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who unfalteringly loves him, his mettlesome daughter Sara, who is increasingly roused to hate. Yet each inspires in him only a more desolating sense of aloneness. In the costly family game of lies and consequences, Con bears more than a few resemblances to O'Casey's Paycock...
...Irish pig. Flann even joked about the impulse that led him to learn his native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that it was important to revive a distant language in which absolutely nothing could be said." Yet in a letter to Sean O'Casey, O'Brien turned temporarily serious about the language that "enables us to transform the English language and this seems to hold of people who know little or no Irish, like Joyce. It seems to be an inbred thing...
...Casey, on a drive from the face-off circle that beat Hynes cleanly to the short side. A pretty goal...
DIED. Bob Meusel, 81, strong-armed outfielder and member of the Yankees' famed "Murderers' Row"; in Downey, Calif. Former Manager Casey Stengel said he "never saw a better thrower" than Meusel, who also hit the ball pretty well (lifetime average: .309 over eleven seasons). In 1927, with Leftfielder Meusel hitting .337, Centerfielder Earle Combs .356 and Rightfielder Babe Ruth .356 plus 60 home runs, the Yankees had what many students of the game consider the best outfield in baseball history...
...sloppily, but K-House took advantage of a few lucky breaks that completely stunned the Quincy line. Although Quincy rarely passed the ball, Gary Bravo played his usual outstanding game on the front line. In the second quarter, Kirkland quarterback Fran Hickey threw a touchdown pass to split-end Casey Fitz whose spectacular one-handed catch sprung Kirkland to a 6-0 lead...