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...City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across the board. From Killarney to Calcutta, more than 3,500,000 tickets (highest total...
...Dublin, it was a week to recall the famous 1926 riot in the Abbey Theater. The volatile Irish theatergoers were looking forward to a notable event: the world premiere of a new SEAN O'CASEY play. Mindful of the past, the law was ready. The first-night crowd was peppered with uniformed police and plainclothesmen, alert for action should the Dubliners repeat their 1926 objections to an O'Casey tilt with convention. Lester Bernstein of TIME'S London bureau was on hand to report the opening night of The Bishop's Bonfire (see THEATER...
...impressions made on the minds of the injured parties." World War II wiped out Japan's captive markets in Korea, Formosa and Manchuria, and the cold war has closed the door to trade with mainland China. Yet the old cries of Japanese underselling are still heard) Item: in Dublin last week, the Irish Rosary Council protested that even a 37.5% import duty was insufficient to keep out Japanese rosaries...
...Dublin expected trouble. A new Sean O'Casey play, The Bishop's Bonfire, was coming to town-and Dublin remembered 1926. That year the Abbey Theater produced O'Casey's since famed The Plough and the Stars, an irreverent treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers...
...list of applicants-are psychiatric cases, 14% are tuberculous; "the turnover is slow, keeps 90% of VA hospital beds filled (compared with 85% for non-VA hospitals). Thanks to congressional pork-barreling, many VA hospitals are sparsely occupied white elephants, e.g., a modern, 1,000-bed general hospital in Dublin, Ga., has only 385 beds...