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...skilled practitioners in the ambiguous craft of whittling the Irish character into attractive shape is Walter Macken, and his product is as exportable as the golden Irish whisky that sells for a duty-free $1.50 a fifth at Shannon Airport. Macken's wild geese fly west, sometimes to nest in their natural habitat in the U.S. book club (his novel, Rain on the Wind, was a Literary Guild selection). He specializes in the most Irish part of Ireland, i.e., Galway in the west, least touched by the modern (or non-Irish) world...
...Bavarian mountain resort of Berchtesgaden, where Adolf Hitler used to hole up in his eagle's-nest retreat, a small, grey-haired woman of 60 got notice to get out of her $2.80-a-week room in a shabby row of flats. She was none other than Hitler's sister Paula, who has long gone by the name of Paula Wolf. Paula was not in arrears on her rent, but her landlord seemed to fear that she soon might be. Reason: as the only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped...
...least, these are all his worries until Dr. Andrew Butler, an English anthropologist "with a class of hair like an old nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...
...what it was doing." At week's end, Playwright Miller had six more days in which to name his onetime Red associates for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee or risk not getting a passport for an English honeymoon with Marilyn. Optimistically, he had already leased a sumptuous love nest in London's suburbs...
...wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor's gown. Appalled by these developments, Debbie and her fellow revert to Plan 1. They get married quietly; Father Borgnine is free to invest his nest egg in a taxi, and Bette Davis becomes rather suddenly and magically reconciled to a life she hates...