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DIED. EDWARD MULHARE, 74, Irish-born actor who made a career playing astringent Englishmen; of lung cancer; in Van Nuys, Calif. Mulhare followed in Rex Harrison's footsteps, playing Professor Henry Higgins on Broadway and the equally irascible Captain Gregg in TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...
Under the management of impresario Charles L. Wagner, the elegant stylist McCormack grossed $5 million in performance fees from 1908 to 1920. McCormack was an Irish-born naturalized American, and in Ireland he went by the title of Count John McCormack, which was conferred on him in 1928 by Pope Pius XI. He was so popular that in 1938, the year of his teary farewell recital in London's Albert Hall, he was touted as a candidate for the Irish presidency...
...Lewis, who was reared in England yet carries an Irish passport, there is a strong streak of Eire: the tale-spinning, the mordant thoughtfulness, the smile in his soft voice that lightens his remarks with a puckish irony. His father Cecil was the Irish-born poet laureate of England. His mother is actress Jill Balcon, whose Baltic Jewish father, Sir Michael Balcon, ran Ealing Studios, Britain's renowned comedy factory. Daniel's sister Tamasin, four years older, is a documentary filmmaker and writer on food...
...leading biologists -- including Nobel laureate David Baltimore -- was based on data that had been fudged. But rather than reopen the experiment (which involved introducing foreign genes into a mouse and observing the effect on the animal's own genes), the scientists, led by Baltimore, closed ranks. The junior researcher, Irish-born Margot O'Toole, was asked to give up her place in the lab. The senior scientist accused of misconduct, a gifted Brazilian immunologist named Thereza Imanishi-Kari, went on to win a prestigious appointment at nearby Tufts University...