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...When Dublin's Irish Times turns up with an item saying "Fur-collared, Paisley-scarved, Churchill-sock-wearing Walter Graebner" is in town, F.Y.I. passes on the information and points out that TIME International's European Area Director was wearing a pair of Winston Churchill's socks because he fell into a pond on the ex-Prime Minister's estate at Chartwell...
...Dublin's 75,000 school kids last week, a springtime dream had come true. Their teachers, bless their hearts, had gone on strike. Mad through & through at official procrastination, they had walked out of their classrooms for the first time in Irish history, with no sign of going back...
Bubbling with holiday spirits, the children dropped into their schools to ring the bells in gay derision or to gather around pianos and bang out American swing. In Dublin's green parks, sedate old pensioners and mooning poets basking in the warm spring sunshine suddenly found themselves uprooted to make way for football games. Back alleys echoed to the shouts of handball and toss-ha'penny players. The merrily rioting kids stopped politely to give their names and addresses when windows got broken. When one crowd tipped over a pushcart in Dublin's market district, another group...
With over 10,000 of all Eire's teachers donating a tenth of their pay to the cause, Dublin's 1,200-odd primary-school teachers were content to wait it out all summer if necessary. Vaguely promised a raise in salary (present maximum for men: $1,900) since December 1944, they were determined to get it. Present salaries, said the teachers' union, were not "in accordance with the dignity of the profession." Cried Dublin's dignified teachers, we just can't live on the money...
...Dublin's private Catholic schools, church teachers carried on. One game little nun took on more than 100 extra pupils, then broke down in tears. But before week's end Dublin's Archbishop McQuaid gave the strikers his official sympathy...