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Died. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...
...TRUSTING AND THE MAIMED, AND OTHER IRISH STORIES, by James Plunkett (220 pp.; Devin-Adair; $3), is the work of a brand-new Irish author, a Dublin trade-union official who writes excellent short stories on the side. When he wants to, as in a glitteringly ironic piece called The Wearin' of the Green, Jim Plunkett can mount as savage an attack on his country's new nationalist ruling class as the most delirious Liffeyside rabble-rouser could croak for. When in another mood, as in a spine-stiffening tale of men ratting and fighting against Britain...
...picture, Landfall has remarkably little action. Instead, it concentrates on characterization, and its people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film...
...Connecticut's supreme court ruled that James Garrett Plunkett, 49, who killed his wealthy wife during a quarrel in 1949, may legally inherit her estate. Under state law, a convicted murderer is prohibited from inheriting a victim's valuables, but Plunkett was convicted of the lesser crime of manslaughter. Since he is serving a term of only five to eight years, he may be released from prison by 1956; as his wife's sole beneficiary, he stands to receive...
Sanderson questioned Plunkett on the effect that the bill would have on Harvard, which is controlled by the Legislature according to an early state law. Plunkett said "it would be perfectly justified to take away Harvard's charter if the president was found violating...