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...Many looked on the military school as a kind of private reformatory for unruly youngsters, as such celebrated former students as Truman Capote and J.D. Salinger have bitterly testified. "If I catch you messing around with girls in any way," a mother tells her son in John O'Hara's A Rage to Live, "I'm going to send you to a military school in Virginia . . . They beat the boys and feed them slop, and keep them busy from six in the morning to nine at night...
...Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience for such writers as Faulkner, O'Neill, John O'Hara and Sinclair Lewis...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, who since has had a memorable career in politics as a Senator, Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1960, and ambassador to the United Nations and South Viet Nam. During the 1920s and '30s, our masthead was graced by the presence of Novelists John O'Hara and Frank Norris, Poets Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish. Theodore White, Robert Sherrod and John Hersey were TIME correspondents during World War II. Poet-Critic James Agee gained his first measure of fame as our longtime movie reviewer...
...Jake is an inescapably likable John Wayne western. This time round, Big John plays a robustly aging paterfamilias who has been separated from his wife (who else but Maureen O'Hara?) lo these 18 years. When a band of merciless marauders led by Richard Boone kidnaps Wayne's grandson and demands a million dollars ransom (in $20 bills, please), Maureen swallows her pride and sends for the Duke. As soon as he shows up, both the child's safety and a predictable quality of brawny, easygoing entertainment are guaranteed...
Director Billy Wilder once ecstatically claimed that Walter Matthau "could play anything from Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara." For more than a decade Matthau was as unpredictable as his facial expressions: an adamant sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a psychopathic killer in Charade, an ambulance chaser in The Fortune Cookie, the libidinous suburban husband in A Guide for the Married Man. Of late, his roles have yielded an amusing but unvarying character: the rumpled crank whose shpeesh shoundsh ash if it wash making itsh way around a shigar. Plaza Suite happily puts him in reverse. In Arthur...