Word: connor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CRAB APPLE JELLY - Frank O'Connor -Knopf...
...place? Jim Farley was a much-mentioned name. But the best bet was that no successor would be named for a year, that a three-man advisory council would take over temporarily: American League President William Harridge, National League President Ford Frick, Landis' secretary, Leslie O'Connor. It might well take three men to fill the Judge's shoes...
...Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp. (World Book Encyclopedia), this week put him in as the new boss of G. & D. An old hand, O'Connor had sold culture in the form of the Harvard Classics, had helped to boost the Book...
...Gasparella and Frank Dancewicz are equally deadly with their pitching arms up to 30 yards, already have completed 20 passes for 421 yards. Effective on the receiving end, besides fast-breaking Bob Kelly, are Halfback Achille ("Chick") Maggioli and two 6-ft.-4 freshmen ends, Bill O'Connor and Tom Guthrie...
...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...