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...great day for Inventor Harry Ferguson. Less than 15 months after Henry Ford II had stopped producing Ferguson tractors, Irish-born Harry Ferguson stepped into his first tractor to drive it out of his new Detroit plant. He had something to crow about...
Joyce Gary is an Irish-born and English-educated novelist whose work deserves to be more widely read than it is. Unlike so many of his contemporaries who mount the novel as if it were a rostrum, Cary works in the major tradition of English novel writing. He tells a vivid story, creates characters as credible as if they were stepping on one's toes, and uses the English language with beauty and wit. Why he is not therefore a favorite on this side of the Atlantic is something of a mystery...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing...
Vivien Leigh is lashed about by the tremendous role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
...Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 36, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 41, Australian-born Hollywood writerdirector: their fifth child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Prudence Anne. Weight...