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...bragh days of the Irish Literary Renaissance were as exciting as plum cake -full of such plums as Yeats, A. E., Joyce, J. M. Synge. For some time now the cake has been stale and almost plumless. Last week, however, Irish-hungry readers might bite into two fairly fruity bits...
...boyhood among the Ulster farmers and fishermen on Rathlin Island, peters out into unimaginative writing, although the last two-thirds of the story is laid in Belfast during the tense days of "the Trouble." For adult readers, the book will taste more like a piece of citron than a plum...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
Hitler-"Ah, my friend, if you had seen me at Berchtesgaden. I took him by the lapels. I shook him like a plum tree. I spoke coldly of destroying London and Paris...
Last week, without a splurge of advertising (not in character), the store began selling out its $287,000 stock-on-hand at 20% reduction. Mr. Charles thought three weeks would clear the shelves; $7,000 worth of recently-ordered plum pudding worries him not at all. He has a customer for the name, the goodwill, the futures contracts, the trademark and the trucks...