Word: hennessey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearty Bricker handshake, and most of all, the deep Bricker platform voice, full of enthusiasm, platitudes and love of his fellow man, stirred crowds wherever he went. He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front challenged his pronunciation he broke off and said: "Listen, I came...
...LETTERS OF ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT-Edited by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey-Viking...
...year of his death). Most of them reflect only the genial, humorous, enthusiastic side of the man whom the N.Y. Herald Tribune once called "the final arbiter of things literary in the United States." "He wrote angry, cutting, and sometimes cruel letters," say Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little-Womanish prose that led MGM's Howard Dietz to rechristen his friend...
Alexander Woollcott, who enjoyed a six-digit income in his best years and gave much of it away, left an estate of some $70,000. His longtime secretary, Joseph Hennessey, said that the writer left practically all of it to two men: Hennessey himself and Captain Frode Jensen, a 35-year-old member of the Army Medical Corps in the Mediterranean. Danish-born...
...starters, Dean Hennessey is a Varsity veteran and captain of the team, Dick Warren played first string Junior Varsity last year, as did Ray Eder, Dick Manville is a new Freshman, and Bob Rayle has played House ball. Other men who will probably see a lot of action are Don Geeson at center and Jack Falsey at one of the forwards...