Frank John Reid
Magonia 89, August 2005
I’d just dragged myself through Frank McCourt’s depressing Angela’s Ashes when I read Curtis Peebles’s 'The Case of the Vanishing X-15 Pilot'. I grew up Catholic in the 1940s and 50s, in an American Church that rather envied the holiness of Ireland, and so was able to understand, McCourt’s reminiscence of rushing around Limerick, tearing one page out of an issue of John O’London’s Weekly which his employer had earlier distributed, because that page discussed birth control. And so I was able to understand Peebles’s article.