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...Erin Go Bragh! In Cape Town, South Africa, when postwar radio-telephone service to Eire was resumed, nostalgic Don O'Reilly, 51 years away from the Emerald Isle, put in a station-to-station call, instructed a dazed Dublin operator to "Give my love to the purple hills of Wicklow," contentedly hung...
...York's mayoralty campaign was over before the election. The sure winner in the battle of personalities (rather than of municipal issues): 55-year-old, Erin-born Democratic and American Labor Party Candidate William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City cop, onetime Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who, like Tom Dewey, gained fame as a gang-busting district attorney...
There had been nothing like it since St. Patrick exorcised the snakes. As Erin's drink bill fell, so did the country's crimes. When the priest started a new church, Roe, the great Dublin distiller, sent him a big check: "No man has ever done me such harm, but it is a small thing beside the good you have done my country...
...diet of every family should include . . . milk and milk products." Most people believe milk to be good food, tolerate bacteria in it in reasonable quantities as part of each man's "peck of dirt before he dies," give milk credit for making U.S. Irishmen even taller than their Erin brothers and U.S. Japanese inches taller than their forebears...
...sons of old Erin have taken over the Yardling infield in grand style. Aside from being wicked wielders of the oak shillelagh, first basemen Jack Casey, keystone sacker Vince Leahy, shortstop Jim Gallagher, and hot corner guardian Johnny Kilpatrick have given the Freshman squad some of the fanciest exhibitions of fielding finesse that have graced the enclosed arena in many a campaign. The outfield has had little but batting practice...