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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John McGinnis remained unaccounted for. Secretary Hurley's lifelong acquaintances in Oklahoma scratched their heads. McGinnis? . . . Shooting? . . , They re membered that one of the Hurley brothers was killed in a Mexican revolution. Another was killed by a train. A Hurley sister was accidentally shot. And when Pat was a boy working in a coal mine he once thrashed a bully named Whiteside who later was killed by.someone else. But Pat never shot anybody. And he never had dealings with any John McGinnis. An Oklahoma City newspaperman thought the story had something to do with an editor named John McGuire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Colored Bodies | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...assistant cashier (Pat O'Brien) finds her there but gallantly says nothing about it, even when suspected of having assisted in a robbery of his department which occurred at the time of his call. Finally he is exonerated but not until after the big scene, a scene which is pertinent, exciting and brilliantly directed by Frank Capra. A bank telephone operator tells another operator about the robbery. A third operator tells someone else. Presently shop-keepers are whispering the details to their customers. One depositor warns another: the amount of the peculations jumps from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...Vivacious Patricia Reilly ("Pat") Foster was appointed editrix to succeed Editor Harold Norling ("Swanie") Swanson who resigned June i to become story editor of RKO films in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Collegiana | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...Washington dog licenses Nos. i and 2 were ceremoniously carried to the White House by Collector of Taxes Chatham Moore Towers, handed to the President. He put No.1 on Pat, his German shepherd. No. 2 on Weegee, his Norwegian elkhound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Hollywood Speaks (Columbia), another exercise in self scrutiny by the film industry, begins like What Price Hollywood with an opening at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and ends with suicide and scandal. Pat O'Brien is a critic who needs an aspirin and clutches at the bottle in the hand of an extra girl (Genevieve Tobin). The bottle holds poison. He builds a new life for her, makes her a star while she blandishes a famed director. The director's wife commits suicide, blaming Genevieve Tobin in a note which a blackmailer finds. In retrieving the note Pat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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