Word: hurrah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title page warns that Edwin O'Connor-author of The Last Hurrah, that uproarious and thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley...
...mood for a last hurrah, Boston's former mayor and silver-voiced Prince of Blarney, James M. Curley, 82, was no sooner sworn in as a member of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission than he learned that his son George, 38, once Boston director of public celebrations, had surrendered to Morris County, N.J. police, charged with impairing the morals of two male minors...
...drink. The chief editorial writer of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned up on the Teamster payroll as Dave Beck's biographer. When Beck was named international president of the Teamsters, Seattle's most influential men gathered at a dinner to cheer him on with a stout hurrah. Some alumni may have winced inwardly when Beck was named president of the University of Washington board of regents-but they did precious little protesting. Beck could walk into the eminently respectable First National Bank and come out with a whopping big loan; after all, he had moved...
...Hurrah for Them! Other movie folk also thought they detected a familiar ring in The Brave One. Director Fred Zinnemann recalled that the late documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) had told him in 1931 of a similar story he wanted to shoot. Flaherty later sold the idea to Orson Welles, who produced an unfinished version of the story for RKO called My Friend Bonito. In her Vermont home, Mrs. Frances Flaherty has no thought of suing anyone. "I wouldn't think about protesting that award," she says, "but I'm highly amused by the whole...
Because of its location in the temple of the Brahmins, WGBH is top-heavy with free talent. Recent shows included lectures by Pastor Martin Niemöller, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor, Author-Ethnologist Oliver La Farge and Ambassador James B. Conant. British Labor Boss Hugh Gaitskell's three Harvard lectures on foreign policy were carried in full. Drama Critic Walter Kerr discussed contemporary theater with Playwright Arthur Miller. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. completed a 16-part series on the Constitution and human rights only a week before his death (TIME...