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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Orin G. Murfin, 69, onetime Judge Advocate General, commander of the Asiatic Fleet, predecessor of Rear Admiral Bloch as commandant of the 14th Naval District, is now retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pearl Harbor Report: The Judges | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Lieutenant. The other ten: Admirals William H. Standley, Thomas C. Hart, Joseph M. Reeves, Harry E. Yarnell, Arthur J. Hepburn, Orin G. Murfin, Edward C. Kalbfus, Claude C. Bloch, James O. Richardson, Charles P. Snyder-plus one, Jonas H. Ingram, whose promotion has now been announced (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Among his classmates: Admiral William Daniel Leahy; Rear Admirals William Gunnell Du Bose, Harry Ervin Yarnell, Arthur Japy Hepburn, Orin Gould Murfin, Arthur St. Clair Smith, Clarence Selby Kempff. The succession in the Asiatic Fleet has been in the hands of '97 classmates since 1937, when Murfin took over, to be followed by Yarnell, then Hart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Admiral at the Front | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...adapting Helen Jerome's dramatization of Miss Austen's novel, able Screen writer Jane Murfin's collaborator was Aldous Huxley, who went to California two years ago for eye treatments. He wrote a screen play for Garbo about Marie Curie which disappeared without a trace, supposedly because of family objections (Daughter Irene Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...wrote a film version of Eve Curie's life story of her mother. Garbo was to have played it, but the story was shelved. Just completed, in collaboration with Jane Murfin, is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time and Craving | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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