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- Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1918, Edwin O'Connor spent his early life in Woonsocket and, from La Salle Academy in Providence, went on to the University of Notre Dame. After graduation in 1939, he worked as a radio announcer. During World War II, he served in the Coast Guard for three years, then went to Boston to work as a writer-producer for the Yankee Network. One year later, in 1946, he left radio and became a free-lance writer. In that year he sold his first magazine piece, a satire on radio, to the Atlantic Monthly; a year later he sold his first short story to the same magazine.
During the next decade, he wrote more articles and short stories, contributed television columns to two Boston newspapers and produced two novels, The Oracle (1951) and The Last Hurrah (1956). Three other novels followed: The Edge of Sadness (1961), I Was Dancing (1964) and All in the Family (1966). The Edge of Sadness won the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. O'Connor died in Boston on March 23, 1968, four months before his fiftieth birthday. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., said of O'Connor's books, "He left behind an ironic chronicle of a vital part of American society- a chronicle that . . . future historians must consult to understand a
- John Huntington was born circa 1896. He joined the D'Oyly Carte "New" Opera Company in February 1925, appearing that season as Captain Corcoran in "H.M.S. Pinafore", Pish-Tush in "The Mikado", and the Lieutenant of the Tower in "The Yeomen of the Guard". Later seasons also saw him play The Counsel for the Plaintiff in "Trial by Jury", Grosvenor in "Patience", Strephon in "Iolanthe", 2nd Yeoman in "The Yeomen of the Guard", and Luiz in "The Gondoliers". He left the Carte in December 1926. Huntington would later appear in London in the chorus of "The Song of the Drum" at Drury Lane (January-May 1931), and as an extra in "Waltzes From Vienna".