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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dirty Foreigners. Two years of fighting had separated North from South with deep, bitter emotions. When youthful John Dooley, a Virginian soldier, compared the "dignified but most courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Saw It Happen | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Unfortunately Feathers?a night-lighted study of bums in Central Park?was as superior to Harrity's other work as it had been to the other fellows'. About all Harrity's other work could boast was that it brought Producer Dowling's wife, Ray Dooley, out of retirement and let her toss in, for oldtimers' sake, her famous Follies routine of a squalling infant. At week's end Hope was a thing of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Playlets in Manhattan, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...first game was mild. Jim Dooley, Dartmouth right-hander, extended the Varsity's batting drought with a three-hit performance while his teammates rang up single tallies off Brendon Reilly in the first, third, and fourth frames. Relief pitcher Ira Godin was touched for the visitors' final two runs in the sixth...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Nine Divides with Indians Amid Squeezes, Rhubarbs, Fisticuffs | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...right hand at the new Institute, President Yount had picked ex-Lieut. Colonel Finley Peter Dunne Jr., 42, son of "Mr. Dooley's" creator, and Yount's wartime chief of A.A.F.T.C. student personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thunderbird College | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...night, the best bowlers in the land spun the big balls down the alleys in the musty-aired, Victorian recreation building at Archer Avenue and 35th (Mr. Dooley's "Archey Road"). Only experts (averaging a score of 180 a game) were eligible (2,080 of them anted $25 each to build the prize total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Slow Swede Wins | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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