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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is a heavy-footed fantasy about a war orphan (Dean Stockwell) adopted by a singing waiter (Pat O'Brien). Overnight, the boy's hair turns green (in Technicolor). He is a symbol of the tragedy that war inflicts on children. But townspeople grow intolerant of the boy because his green hair makes him "different." ("How would you like your sister to marry someone with green hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...titles with "Symphonic Pastorale" are the most gratifying in a long while. One of Gide's English translators, Justin O'Brien, is credited with writing them. The omnipresent Herman Weinberg is also credited with an "American adaptation." This should please Meneken, but it puzzles me, and it might Mr. O'Brien, who is a professor at Columbia...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Symphonie Pastorale | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

Quoting your review of the movie Fighter Squadron [TIME, Dec. 6]: "When O'Brien parachutes from a crippled plane, his wingman brashly lands in enemy territory to rescue him. This threadbare sort of hokum is fairly hard to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Guidera '50. William L. Henry '47 ocC, William K. Hickey '50, George H. Hill '50, Howard E. Houston '50, Arthur D. Hyde '51, Phillip L. Isenberg '51, Jerry Kanter '51, James B. Kenary '50, Armande D. Mazzone '50, Harold J. Moffle '50, James F. Noonan '50, Paul M. O'Brien '51, Philip K. O'Donnell '49, (captain), Paul A. O'Leary '48 ocC, Frank H. Powell '46 ocC, Charles D. Roche, Jr. '49, Nicholas Rodis '49, William W. Roseuan '51; Henry D. Sedgwick, 2nd '51, Paul C. Shafer, Jr. '50, Gorden B. Stensrud '50, Alan A. Stone '50, Donald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 206 Athletes Get Major or Minor Awards in Fall Sports | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Yale Hyde (190) LER Albright (165) Davis (198) LTR Emerson (205) Houston (200) LGR Jablonski (181) O'Brien (205) C Conway (189) Coan (198) RGL Frank (187) Bender (204) RTL Picevich (203) Florentine (185) REL Setear (186) Henry (188) QB Furse (185) Noonan (167) LHR Raines (167) Mofflo (165) RHL Jackson (187) Shafer (190) FB Nadherny (192) Kickoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Probable Starting Lineups | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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