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7 picks · 1955–1968

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The Children Are There, Trying Not To Laugh
fiction ·

The writer tells of a mansion on L.I. where 7 children live. She describes a day in January - the children laughing and falling in the snow. They fall, …

A Young Girl Can Spoil Her Chances
fiction ·

Hubert & Rose live in Dublin; they have been married over thirty years. Their only child, John, has become a priest, much to Hubert's disgust. Hubert, …

Long-Winded Lady
the talk of the town ·

Talk. The long-winded lady writes that she finds the world noisy & intrusive in the summertime; she is always too conscious of the rooms she is living in &…

The Bohemians
fiction ·

George Briscoe was 47 & Jane Rooney, 40, when they married. A Londoner, he had come to Dublin for a part with an English Theatre Co. He met Jane, a music …

The Beginning of a Long Story
fiction ·

A government clerk, his wife and three small daughters lived in a small house in Dublin. The mother was a country girl who was unsure of herself. The only …

The Daughters
fiction ·

Miss Lister, about forty, waited for her father in the lobby of a hotel on lower 5th Ave. While she sat there, old Mr. Whitticombe, and his daughter came …