Word: dooley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's leading steeplechase jockey, Frank ("Dooley") Adams, rode five-year-old Neji, the year's top steeplechase horse (five firsts in eight starts) to a three-quarter-length win in the world's richest steeplechase, the $57,300 Temple Gwathmey at New York's Belmont Park...
Dowling, 41, was a quiet, deadpan reporter whose field was war. He started out playing at it with the toy soldiers collected for him all over the world by his famous parents, Actor-Producer Eddie Dowling and Comedienne Ray Dooley. He grew up to make a career of combat. He was in the front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once...
Died. John Graham Dowling, 41, veteran overseas reporter, TIME bureau chief in Buenos Aires and former (1950-53) bureau chief in Singapore, World War II Chicago Sun correspondent in the Pacific Theater, son of Comedienne Ray Dooley Dowling, stepson of Actor Eddie Dowling; in the crash of a Panair do Brazil plane; at Cuatro Mojones, Paraguay...
...DOOLEY Norfolk...
Wrote he: "For three-quarters of a century it has been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe...