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...FRIEDA SMITH Auckland...
...immigrants who had fled rural poverty in Tipperary. He drifted away from the Roman Catholic Church in his teens because it failed to support trade unionism, and he did not return to it until ?as a railroad engineer in Minnesota ?he married a gentle German girl named Frieda Fromhart. But he stayed radical enough to lose his job for being a militant socialist. When he moved East to Syracuse, N.Y., with his wife and six sons?Thomas Jr., John, James, Jerome, Daniel and Philip?Tom Berrigan helped to organize the city's first electrical workers' union...
...Under Frieda's compassionate influence, the home became a haven for Depression drifters down on their luck, but for Tom it was also a feudal castle to be ruled with a shillelagh fist. Philip ascribes his rebelliousness to resentment of his tyrannical father. Daniel traces his to the year when a stingy aunt took over the household while his mother was recovering from tuberculosis. "She actually starved us," he still says in some bewilderment...
...DORP by"Frieda Arkin. 360 pages. Dial...
...Frieda Arkin has found a real, snug little place for herself in northern New York State, name of Kuyper's Dorp. Halfway between the Adirondacks and the Catskills. Or-if you prefer to chart it on another map-halfway between the delicate perceptions of Our Town and the guff of Peyton Place...