Word: connor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich, mass-selling R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. has long yearned for a West Coast anchor for its department-store chain (eight stores in seven U.S. cities). Last week it got one: San Francisco's sedate, pioneer O'Connor, Moffatt...
Catering to San Francisco's upper middle class, paternalistic, 79-year-old O'Connor, Moffatt's has displayed its wares in a subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line, ad, or antic smacking of the sensational. Example: last year O'C.M. turned down an Adrian-designed dress line as "too Hollywood"; the rival City of Paris across the street snapped it up, did handsomely...
Tosspot Tempest. In Manhattan, Katherine O'Connor, denied drink by a saloonkeeper, heaved three barstools into his bar mirror, swept 36 cocktail glasses to the floor, smashed 48 beer glasses, bounced 36 empty bottles off the walls, was finally bounced herself...
Michael O'Donovan, Cork-born in 1903, got off the mark so fast that he tried to publish his "collected works" at the age of twelve. Later, having adopted the pseudonym of Frank O'Connor, he published several novels and plays, some verse, a biography of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, and a host of short stories that critics have called the best in Ireland since James Joyce's Dubliners. "O'Connor," said the late great William Butler Yeats, "is doing for Ireland what Chekov did for Russia...
Natural, straightforward, usually tragicomical, Author O'Connor's stories present a world that is self-contained-often sadly so. An old Ford is the most up-to-date object in the book; the reader's eyes are directed into the past rather than the future. In one of the stories an old woman attains her lifelong ambition, which is to be buried in the place where she was born. In another, a kindly, drunken father spins his young daughters what seems to be simply a gay, Oriental tale, but which turns suddenly into...