Word: connor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francis (Universal-International) is the name of a talented Army mule (already celebrated in David Stern's 1946 comic novel) who not only talks but makes more sense than the whole chain of command. By confiding Japanese secrets to a bewildered Burma campaign shavetail (Donald O'Connor), Francis throws the enemy for a loss and the U.S. brass into a tizzy...
When Lieut. O'Connor bags a Japanese observation post on information supplied by the mule, his colonel (Ray Collins) treats him like a hero. When he tries to share the credit with Francis, he is put to weaving baskets in the neuropsychiatric ward. Released, O'Connor goes on heroically fighting the one-mule war; as his coups get bigger, so do the baskets...
...Bucky O'Connor, who played forward and guard for the second place Matthews North basketball team, led the Yard in scoring during the past season with 164 points. Johnny O'Brien of Massachusetts Hall was second with 125 points...
Winners of the second half of the split season, Thayer had little trouble downing the Matthews five, first half champions. Holding Bucky O'Connor, individual high scorer for the season, to 11 points, the Thayer team took an early lead and was never headed...
Died. Robert Digges Wimberly Connor, 71, first Archivist of the U.S. (1934-41); in Durham, N.C. A University of North Carolina history professor and a onetime Archivist of the State of North Carolina, Connor was already an old hand at old documents when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to the task of assembling in Washington's brand-new Archives Building a mountain of scattered records...