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John O'Hara, best selling literary specialist in big-city barflies, heels and floozies, got a thorough quoting-over from New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him at a bar. O'Hara by Wilson: "If I write any extended work, I gotta goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started...
Sirs: In the last issue of your magazine [TIME, Feb. 11] you included a discussion of American fiction during the past 30 or 40 years. . . . You appeared to apologize for the fact that the outstanding novelists of the last decade were Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and John O'Hara. Pardon us, but we had thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which...
...defense, May Quinn, a teacher for 27 years, insisted that some of her best friends were Italians and Jews. She also said that it had never entered her head that all the names on the board-Michael Murphy, Colin Kelly, John O'Hara-were Irish. She wouldn't be surprised, she testified, to meet a Greek named O'Hara, or a Russian named Kelly, what with "intermarriages and changing of names...
...story: a childless young actress (Maureen O'Hara), married to a successful young producer (John Payne), takes in a little girl from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
...succeeds, but not until there has been a deathbed scene, a graveyard watch, a near drowning. Stately Irish Cinemabeauty Maureen O'Hara, who recently has been required to do little more than look, bosomy in swashbuckling pictures, emotes heavily in chaste, flowing, decorous gowns...