Word: halloran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australian with a pronounced Irish accent. He has found the mythic frame for his novel in the love, rebellion and death of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with one, and loves another, who happens...
...story's hero is given what might be called Eichmann's choice: do evil for duty's sake or rebel. Inevitably, there is a convict rebellion; inevitably, it is suppressed by slaughter, in which Halloran must fire (though he fires high), and he later helps a leader of the rebellion to escape. Inevitably, his girl hangs, and he hangs. It is as economical, as predestined as that. The last paragraph is visible from the first page...
...CHARLES: INGREDIENTS IN A RECIPE FOR SOUL (ABC-Paramount). Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, Charles teams up with a studio full of musical midgets and almost survives their attempts to pull him down to Teensville. But not quite. Arranger Marty Paich, the Jack Halloran Singers and some errant fiddlers get the best of him on all but a few tunes. Besides, what is "The Genius" doing singing such things as You'll Never Walk Alone and Ol' Man River...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) Art Carney stars in "O'Halloran's Luck," a musical adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's story about an Irish immigrant who becomes a U.S. railroad tycoon with the assistance of a displaced leprechaun. Color...