Word: harrigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Especially we of the Silent Generation, silent because listening to the radio, value the sociological and cultural eminence of such personalities as Captain Midnight, Jack Armstrong and Hop Harrigan. We remember Captain Midnight's Decoder Badges, Sky King's Secret Signal Mirrors, and Secret Compartment Rings. We remember that voice: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains brought law and order to the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of Justice. Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From...
...Monty's own military records. The Staunton, Va. News-Leader chided: "President Eisenhower may have forgotten his own Kasserine Pass defeat and the breakthrough in the Bulge; Marshal Montgomery his excruciating slowness in hitting the Germans after the initial Rhine crossings.'' Columnist Anthony Harrigan argued in South Carolina's Charleston News & Courier that Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director." And on the theory that Lee and Meade should have equal time to reply to their critics, an editorial in the Scripps-Howard papers took the ghosts...
...Merry Partners, by E. J. Kahn Jr. A nostalgic stroll through the bygone world of Harrigan and Hart, top-billed vaudeville team of the '70snd '80s, with many an off-Broadway glance at the New York of their heyday (TIME...
...fire turned the merry partnership to ashes. Their Broadway Theatre Comique burned to the ground in the winter of 1884. Harrigan accused Hart's brother-in-law of quitting his night watchman's post early. Hart upbraided Harrigan because Harrigan's father had allowed their $30,000 fire-insurance policy to lapse...
...years later, Tony Hart died in a madhouse, leaving an estate of 80?. Harrigan lingered on to 1911, losing his theatrical touch, his audiences, and finally his health. A few days before he died he remarked to one of his old acting troupe how bitter it was to have once been so universally beloved and then so utterly forgotten. His funeral proved him wrong...