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...sure, said one paper, there was a good harpist at the Royal Dublin Society's concert, but she was a Russian. Besides, said another, the traditional harp of the great Brian Boru had 30 strings, and this heraldic harp had only 15, for all that they were silver. And anyway, wasn't it the Sassenach heretic King Henry VIII who made the harp Ireland's official symbol in the first place when he decided that the three crowns of ancient Ireland looked too much like a Popish tiara...
...McNulty. She married Writer John McNulty in 1945, and they were listed in the 1946 edition. McNulty spent part of the year working on a book about a bar on Manhattan's Third Avenue, a street seldom mentioned in the Register. ¶ Mrs. Eleanor Labrot, who married Actor Brian Aherne last January. ¶Socialite publisher Stuart Scheftel who married Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald last September. Listed under "Dilatory Domiciles," the Register's never-never classification reserved for those who are not settled at a permanent address, were: ¶Socialite theatrical producer Horace Schmidlapp, who married lush Cinestar Carole Landis...
Going Concern. The agreement signed by Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin formalizes a setup devised by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and his British opposite number, Lieut. General Sir Brian Robertson. The Clay-Robertson plan established five bipartite, interzonal policy committees to supervise finance, economics, transport, communications, food and agriculture. Actual administration is left to six-man German joint committees in each of these fields. Clay and Robertson guessed that the program would cost the U.S. and Britain $1,000,000,000 over the next three years...
Dudley Hall's commuters may now take advantage of the cafeteria service resumed last Monday, and already serving about 150 lunches a day according to an estimate of Brian Hansbury, the cafeteria steward. Meals at Dudley had been discontinued at the start...
...brutal film. If you can stand more than an hour of South Sea cruelty on the high seas, you might be able to suffer this--but even discarding the brutality, it has lost most of the documentary qualities of the original in the rush for melodrama. Alan Ladd and Brian Donlevy star...