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Starting May 1, Moorer will succeed retiring Admiral Harold Page Smith. Taking over Moorer's job as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, will be Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, who, in turn, will give up his Seventh Fleet command to Rear Admiral Paul P. Blackburn, 56, the senior member of the United Nations Military Armistice Commission in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Three Hats for a Hero | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Several minor characters give excellent performances. Robert Blackburn as Mickey, a prize fighter who loved and left Ella, is marvelously cocky, and provides most of the few light moments of the evening. Jim Spruill, as a boyhood friend of Jim, is successful in conveying the differences between the races--the joviality of the Negroes, the awkardness of the whites--O'Neill seeks to establish in the first two scenes. Bradley Marable as Jim's mother is also excellent, delivering the line "Dey ain't many strong. Dey ain't many happy neider" with moving compassion...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: 'All God's Chillun' at Brandeis | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Meet the Professor (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Guest: W. D. Blackburn, professor of English and creative writing at Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

With Anderson on the second team are forwards Johnny Maguire and Larry boardman of Colby and Jeff Haertel of Dartmouth; defenseman Pat McDonnell of Hamilton; and goalie Rod Blackburn of New Hampshire. Bowdoin lost only five games this season, one at the hands of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two on Hockey Team Named to All-Star Six | 3/28/1961 | See Source »

...Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame was the Show of the Month (CBS), skillfully adapted and powerfully acted. With angular hulkiness, Sterling Hayden as Ethan, the Yankee farmer, all but invented a cubist style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Novels into Plays | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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