Word: briens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endless ferryboat ride" was over. Last week, after 296 round trips, Michael Patrick O'Brien, the "stateless Irishman" who had been forced to ride the Hong Kong-Macao ferry continuously since Sept. 18, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), was whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where...
...proportion to their real power. Last month the party's "Challenge to Britain" platform called for partial nationalization of the complex aircraft, machine-tool and chemical industries. But last week the Trades Union Congress (183 unions, 8,000,000 members) staged a counterattack. Keynoted Chairman Tom O'Brien: "The British trades union movement created the Labor Party, and if the child thinks it is going to devour the father, it must be told there is nothing doing...
Father Rohrbacher needed help and he got it. In 1947, he had written to Father John A. O'Brien of Notre Dame University, who is also a Catholic leader in the National Conference of Christians and Jews.* Stout, handsome Father O'Brien could step into any casting office and get a role as a Catholic priest. His voice is rich and he uses it effectively, he knows how to make people feel warm and at home, and the right words seem to grow in his mouth and fall ripely from it. He looks far more the evangelist than...
...Father O'Brien, Father Rohrbach-er's letter describing what he called "the church's front line" in North Carolina sounded like the cry that summoned the Apostle Paul to Macedonia. He decided to go down himself...
...Trickle. Last week Notre Dame Professor O'Brien returned home from the seventh annual month of his summer vacation that he has spent preaching on the farms and street corners of Missionary Rohrbacher's parish. Together, the two priests make an effective team...