A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American pre-Code romance drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, with a screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer, the film is about a romantic love affair between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy during World War I. The film received Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Art Direction. In 1960,
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the January, 1954 edition of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" and later in "Beyond Lies the Wub" in 1984 and in "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford", a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories, in 1990. The story is told from a first person perspective of a young man and his friend, a scientist named Doc Rupert Labyrinth (also appearing in Dick's short story "The Preserving