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Daily Bread for 3.17.14

Good morning.

St. Patrick’s Day in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of thirty-three.

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Google has a doodle on its search page today with a link to information about the holiday. I’m not of Irish ancestry, but yet still I know – as do most people – that this holiday isn’t meant to be about over-drinking.

In Chicago, residents dyed part of the Chicago River green for the holiday. Embedded below is a time-lapse video of their work:

On this day in 1941, Milwaukee’s airport gets its name:

1941 – General Mitchell Field Named
On this date Milwaukee’s airport was named to honor the city’s famous air-power pioneer, General William Mitchell. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride]

This week’s Puzzability series is called Irish Stew. Here’s Monday’s game:

This Week’s Game — March 17-21
Irish Stew
We’re going for brogue this St. Patrick’s Day week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, added the seven letters in IRELAND, and rearranged all the letters to get the name of a famous person. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
Example:
Affirmative answer; Rescue Me star
Answer:
Yes; Denis Leary
What to Submit:
Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Yes; Denis Leary” in the example), for your answer.
Monday, March 17
Private eye, in film noir; author of The Satanic Verses

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