Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give the story "stark realism," CBS called in two ex-newspapermen as writers: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, once of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (more recently of the Satevepost and M-G-M), and Richard Carroll, once of the New York Daily News. Their job is to make Shorty's episodes self-sufficient, but with enough continuity to hold listener interest over a week-long intermission...
Notre Dame's basketballers felt sorry for themselves. Kevin O'Shea, the star of the team, had a bad knee and indigestion; big Leo Barnhorst said he had a sprained ankle and Johnny Brennan complained of a sore throat. Last week, with stiff upper lips and handsome gold uniforms, Underdog Notre Dame (beaten seven times this season) limped out on the floor at Madison Square Garden to play hot-shot N.Y.U., only undefeated college team...
...Shea, the superb dribbler, had never looked so good. Brennan and Barnhorst had forgotten all about their ailments, and both sides had forgotten all about the Y.M.C.A. way basketball used to be played. Players exchanged scowls and heated words; the referees broke up one fist fight only to have another threaten. At one point, the referee wanted to keep an N.Y.U. player from shooting a foul until the hooting stopped; the player grabbed the ball, glared at the crowd, and sank one. In the final five minutes, harassed N.Y.U. lost its head completely. When the game ended, 51 personal fouls...
Died. John Keirn Brennan, 74, hit lyricist (Empty Saddles, Let the Rest of the World Go By, A Little Bit of Heaven), charter member of ASCAP; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
...development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...