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...developed the notion that the sentimental "top-o'-the-mornin'-to-ye" Irish character was an English invention designed to prove that the Irish were incapable of looking after themselves. Ever since, without exactly conceding Shaw's point, or, for that matter, calling the man a liar, Irish writers have been adapting and improving the original invention...
...newspapers, sent a help-wanted letter to the dean of Northwestern University's School of Journalism, Kenneth E. Olson. Excerpts from his waggish call for the perfect legman: "I want a combination copy boy, telephone answerer, coffee maker ... an eavesdropper and Peeping Tom, a gossip and preferably a liar ... At the end of the [Chicago] convention he is finished, through, his career terminated and any attempt at blackmail will be strenuously resisted ... He is the patsy and I want him never to forget it. I'm getting mad at him already . . ." Last week Steinbeck picked his "queen...
...search for self-respect and truth, the young hero, Hugo, leaves his father's house and joins the Communists of his Nazi-occupied country. "Here I met men who didn't lie...I could breath." But even within the party there is a liar--Hoederer, their leader, intends to join conservative groups in an anti-Nazi coalition. To save Party purity and to take the step which would prove himself, Daniel accepts an assignment from Hoederer's opponents within the Party to assasinate the leader...
...whole board to get elected in order to elect myself business manager of the paper." On another occasion he broke open a ballot box for two strong reasons: 1) to fix the election of a friend as prettiest girl; 2) to filch ballots proclaiming him (as he recalls) biggest liar in the class...
Franklin D. Roosevelt called Washington Columnist Drew Pearson "a chronic liar." President Truman called him "an s.o.b." Last week Columnist Pearson got further presidential notice. Pearson had written that, unknown to newsmen cover ing President Eisenhower's recent "golfing-hunting sojourn" with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at Thomasville, Ga.. Vice President Nixon had paid Ike "a secret visit" to talk about his own renomination. Next day at Ike's press conference, a newsman asked: "At any time while you were in Thomasville. did Vice President Nixon meet with you there?" Replied the President emphatically...