Word: briens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Children. Of the ten Messenger entries, four were offspring of Adios-Raider Frost, Ike Frost, Adios Paul and Kwik. Two who were not were Del Miller's own entry-a pair of colts named Thorpe Hanover and O'Brien Hanover. Owned by Pennsylvania Oilman Hugh Grant, Thorpe and O'Brien were sons of Tar Heel-another Miller-developed sire. Grant, who depends on Miller's advice and uncanny instinct for horseflesh in making his purchases, bought the two colts in 1956 for a modest $13,000 and turned them over to Miller for training...
...gate pulled away and the race began, Del Miller watched unhappily from the clubhouse. His mood changed fast. As the pacers whipped past the three-quarter mark, his O'Brien Hanover was in the lead with Thorpe Hanover close behind. Only a final burst to second place by Tommy Winn's Flying Time marred a straight one-two finish for Miller's Tar Heel colts. Their first and third took $67,310.62 of the total purse. Also in the money in fourth and fifth place: Adios' sons Raider Frost and Adios Paul. Quipped the New York...
...turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, and Minority Leader Joe Martin. "It's great...
...survives a deadweight glossary of Hollywood stars--including Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Edward O'Brien, Deborah Kerr, and Greer Garson, a number of them wasting their talent and experience on bit-parts and walk...
That would be enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...