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...Nominated Washington Investment Banker George A. Garrett as Minister to Eire to succeed crusty, outspoken David Gray, who was retiring after five wartime years of battling belligerent Irish neutrality and keeping Dublin diplomatic circles in an awed uproar...
...arrange the cast in the order of its excellence would be a difficult task: nonetheless, the fact stands clear that Miss Claire Gilman, as a visitor from Dublin, is the prettiest actress to be seen recently in these parts, while John Mannick, as the leading man of the repertory company, is one of the funniest, although he is made up to resemble a slightly pasty Peter Lorre...
Gloomily the delegates trooped down the green and yellow carpet of Dublin's Leinster House and into the dimly lit Dail Chamber. "Like mourners," cracked a newsman, "heavy with the wake's hangover, for the funeral of Kathleen ni Houlihan." Throughout the war stubborn, belligerently neutral Eire had feasted while the rest of the world fought. But last week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young...
...last year until he fell at treacherous Becher's Brook. At the last few jumps, up moved Caughoo, 100-to-1 (202½-to-1 on the tote), an Irish eight-year-old with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race in the papers...
...newcomer to Dublin, Mary treasured a cigaret butt Yeats had thrown away, went to every performance of his plays, watched awestruck as he passed on the street, "strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...