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William Trevor is an Irish-born novelist and short-story writer highly regarded for the had understated manner in which he suggests that quot;real life" and other a illusions may be dangerous to one's health. His deadpan style disguises a compassion for the peevish, the confused and the lonely. The Old Boys (1964) and The Boarding House (1965) had funny moments; yet the novels' deeper impressions were made by sympathy for the elderly and middle-aged attempting to preserve a fleeting respectability. The Love Department (1967) rollicked along on the efforts of a lovelorn columnist...
DIED. George Brent, 75, Irish-born film heartthrob of the '30s and '40s best remembered as the surgeon who loves but cannot save Bette Davis in the classic 1939 tearjerker Dark Victory; of emphysema; in Solana Beach, Calif...
SUNDAY. Shortly after midnight, another kidnaper became nervous. Identified later as Dominick Byrne, 53, an Irish-born operator of a Brooklyn limousine service, he saw FBI agents near the Lynch apartment building. Apparently assuming that the kidnap plot was crumbling, he decided to fend for himself. Byrne sent someone to deliver a note to a police precinct in Brooklyn. Police notified the FBI and went to Byrne's apartment. He told them where Sam was being kept. When police rushed there, they found the building already under surveillance by other FBI agents...
...Irish-born Thomas J. O'Hanlon, 41, has an additional excuse. He left home in 1957 for the U.S. and is now an American citizen and journalist. (Nearly 10 years ago he became an editor of FORTUNE.) The outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland in 1969 and frequent trips back to his splintered country convinced O'Hanlon "that the Irish had become the most interesting subjects for anyone who wanted to understand and write about the flabby human condition in the last part of the century of industrial man." In 1972-73, he set up temporary residence...
Died. Kay Summersby Morgan, 66, General Dwight Eisenhower's secretary, chauffeur and confidante during World War II; of cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. Irish-born daughter of a retired British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby...