Word: hurrahs
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...Here the quality was generally high. Most of the sculptors had two works apiece. I particularly admired Kahlil Gibran's "Pieta," Peter Grippe's "King Minos Number 2," Liliam Saarinen's "Portrait of an Author" (whom I took to be Edwin O'Connor, author of the novel The Last Hurrah), and the items by Henry Kreis and Robert Lamb. Donald Stoltenberg's so-so "Shipyard Cranes" won the $500 Invitational Award for Sculpture or Painting; and Gilbert Franklin's appealing "Beach Figure" captured the Festival's $1000 Grand Prize...
Died. James Gleason, 72, wispy, slang-spouting cinemactor who inevitably turned up as the prizefight manager, the private eye, the top sergeant or the political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with Is Zat So? (618 performances), later wrote plays with fat cast lists in order to provide work for actors; of chronic asthma; in Hollywood...
...marching band. Spotting the opening in the last row of the band, one South Boston roue, an old hand at parades, moved swiftly into the position, calling the order to "close ranks." But soon the band had passed, and the crowd pressed forward eagerly to give its first hurrah as a black Cadillac, outfitted liberally with tattered green bunting, crawled past. Inside, a well fed figure, moving uneasily in its rich clothes, smiled readily and brandished a blackthorne shillelagh. Everyone...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a faith healer who suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late famed British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a miracle-working faith healer whose untidy life suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions...