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...romantic period piece about a homely 18th Century shillelagh fighter who turns up in the west of Ireland just as a great landlord is about to seize a pretty young peasant girl for his pleasure. When the girl (Maggie McNamara) pretends love for the brawny shillelagh-swinging Dowd (Walter Macken), he cheerfully whips the landlord's entire press gang. But though Dowd eventually wins the girl's love, the landlord schemes so that he does not win the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Canadian Women's Open. Accoutred perhaps less gaudily than MacFarlane (above) but assuredly more seasonably, in homespun skirts and woolie whatnots, they played for four days, played until all the able U. S. women had been eliminated? until only Mrs. Alexa Sterling Fraser was left to face Miss Macken-sie?until Mrs. Fraser too, at the end of 26 holes, succumbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Champion | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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