Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Nicholas (Knock on Any Door) Ray has succeeded in breathing some new life into his hackneyed plot. An escaped lifer (Farley Granger) and his girl (Cathy O'Donnell) hopelessly try to filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good view of the world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel...
...weekly White House press conference, Harry Truman was asked whether such heat-turning-on was "a new departure in policy." It was not new at all, replied the President. He recalled that when he was a Senator, National Chairman Jim Farley had put the heat on him, tried to get him to vote for Alben Barkley instead of the late Pat Harrison for Senate majority leader. Senator Truman, President Truman confessed, had voted for Pat Harrison anyway...
Retired Politico James A. Farley, on a trip to Europe, dropped in at Castel Gandolfo for a call on Pope Pius...
...Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician on the Jim Farley pattern, Boyle probably knows more Democratic politicians by their first names than...
...Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters and corn. But the armistice is not to last. When young Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger) falls in love with Roseanna McCoy (Joan Evans) and carries her off to be his bride, hell breaks loose on the border. In no time at all, every Hatfield in the hills is blazing away at the nearest McCoy...