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...sprightly Irish Marquess of Donegall, who writes a London gossip column, this week vouched that Prime Minister Lord Craigavon had told him: "We have learned in Northern Ireland to place no value whatever in Mr. de Valera's promises or guarantees. They are valueless in Ulster. We in Ulster feel it is time to put an end to Mr. de Valera's activities. . . . Under no circumstances whatever will we listen to the rattling of the sabre or, for that matter, to the cooing of the dove where the integrity of Ulster is concerned. . . . Any attempt to meet...
...Mother India is too poor for radio. In the whole peninsula no sets are manufactured, and imported receivers are subject to heavy duties. But India's ryot (farmer) needs radio. He gets news only from bazaar gossip on market days, loses even that source when impassable roads through the four-month rainy season keep him home. So for three years All-India Radio (controlled by the Indian Government) has been trying to figure out a broadcasting scheme to enlighten rural India...
Ever since Joseph O'Mahoney remarked during the Court Fight: "Mr. President, have you ever considered how history will regard your position on this bill?" the Wyoming Senator has been persona non grata at the White House. Last week Washington gossip was that the Administration group in the Temporary National Economic (Antimonopoly) Committee had definitely swiped control from Senator O'Mahoney. At least the committee last week sent out a batch of subpoenas without Chairman O'Mahoney's knowledge. Nonetheless, Senator O'Mahoney is still TNEC's titular chief and when he rose before...
Against this background of trivial gossip and narrow minds, Mr. Carroll has placed the austere Thomas Canon Skerritt, who seeks refuge from football-playing curates and "Dublin's holy hooliganism" in the cold clarity of learning and the classical grandeur of the Church. At the other angle of the triangle is Dermot Francis O'Flingsley, the rebellious schoolmaster who attacks the Canon and the Church as being cruelly aloof from the pain and squalor of life. And at the apex is Brigid, the simple child who was visited by the spirit of her namesake, St. Brigid and who, dying, left...
...Hair, it is plain that Author Roberts has escaped from her blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians, ballad makers, storytellers. They are also high-spirited: 23-year...