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...history lesson is modestly pegged on the career of a young Navy pilot (Gary Cooper) who gets his start in 1921 aboard the U.S.S. Langley and retires at the end of World War II as a rear admiral. Meanwhile, along with a salty senior officer (admirably played by Walter Brennan), he has fought a stubborn battle for carrier-launched aircraft-in outmoded planes, in Annapolis classrooms and in a series of Washington lobbies. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Navy's Cooper happens to be stationed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as it is making for Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Night superintendent James Brennan, on his 10:15 p.m. rounds, discovered the rug was missing and immediately called University police, who turned the case over to the Cambridge Police Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thieves Sneak into Dunster, Take Rug | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

Harvard: Cook, g; Bliss, ld; Donelan, rd; Timpson, c; Koch, lw; Nichols, rw. Andover Academy: Broduer, g; Bates, ld; Rider, rd; Brennan, c; Osgood, lw; Thomson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Summaries | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

Goals: First period Timpson, 0:45. Second period: Osgood, 0:50; Koch (Timpson), 1:29; Harris (Hatch, Snelling) 10:20. Third period, Timpson (Koch), 1:59; Thomson (Brennan), 4:40; Nicholas (Koch), 8:35; Hatch (Snelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Summaries | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

...Robert Wise has avoided much of the flavor of hokum by handling his gunplay as if it were something really necessary, rather than a Fourth of July display. His actors use horses because they seem to want to get somewhere; they come out of brawls looking mussed. Even Walter Brennan, a master of easy tearjerking, plays this one fairly straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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