Word: callahan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara that she is Eve-with disastrous consequences...
...very likely to betray the fact they are acting, but this presentation of the adult world of Grovers Corners was nearly flawless. Wilder's characters remind you of people you know, despite differences in dress and accent. And the cast, especially Dixi DeWitt (Mrs. Webb) and Edward O'Callahan (Dr. Gibbs) made these characters real, in Wilder's sense of universal types...
...second, the only round he won. But the expressionless champ did not even blink, came back to floor Harris four times, open up a mass of cuts that required 14 stitches to close. After twelve rounds the challenger was a bloody hulk, could go no farther. Referee Mushy Callahan took one look at the helpless Harris and stopped the slaughter. Patterson, virtually unmarked, was still champion...
...CALLAHAN Captain, U.S.A. Fort Riley, Kans...
...West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into the vital and shocking life of a country I love very much, the United States." Among East-West Painter Horiuchi's most enthusiastic fans: West-East Painters Tobey and Callahan...