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...Forest and the Fort chiefly concerned the adventures of Salathiel Al-bine, who was kidnapped and brought up by the Indians, grew into a 6 ft. 4 in. paleface with muscles like "fluid oak wood." Salathiel reappears in Bedford Village as one of seven frontiersmen who help Captain Jack Fenwick carry out his vow to exterminate the Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Against the Continent | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Fenwick family carries out the theme of Novelist Allen's title: that the U.S. was founded neither by revolution aries nor social reorganizers, but by "the disinherited" in a continent where "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Against the Continent | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Always Vengeful, Sometimes Crazy. For the Fenwicks were "physically alive in a world in which they did not legally exist." One of their ancestors lost his head to King William for the political crime of losing his heart to King James. Parliament outlawed the rest of the clan. So disinherited Captain Jack Fenwick prowled the Pennsylvania frontier in 1764, soon became a legend. Tall, springy, savage, he became one of those Indian fighters who were as necessary to the colonists as corn. Captain Jack was always vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Against the Continent | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...David Fenwick is duped by the cheap, voluptuous city-girl whom he marries, forgetting what it's like to be weaned on coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/29/1941 | See Source »

Died. James Jay O'Brien, 55, broker, gentleman jockey, member of the victorious 1932 U. S. Olympic four-man bobsled team; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. His first wife: Silent Cinemactress Mae Murray. His second: Stage Actress Irene Fenwick. His widow: Laura Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien, former wife of the late Julius (yeast) Fleischmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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