Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Base Widening. In Milwaukee, charged with disorderly conduct for trying to date two girls whose names he spotted in a newspaper story, ex-Convict Richard J. O'Connor, 27, explained that he was only trying to follow his parole officer's advice to "socialize...
Married. Dan Dailey, 37, Hollywood song-and-dance star (There's No Business Like Show Business); and Gwen O'Connor, 28, ex-wife of Cinemactor Donald O'Connor; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
There's No Business Like Show Business (20th Century-Fox) is another picture that does a lot of big-name-dropping -Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined...
...side of the U.A.W. was the Rev. William ("Father Bill") O'Connor, a labor priest who has fought for 22 years in Rock Island for what he calls "vigorous American unionism," often over the protests of Quad-City* businessmen. In the last seven years Father O'Connor has set up 30 labor schools for workingmen in his district to fight Communist infiltration, notably in the Farm Equipment Workers union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O...
With the election in doubt, Father O'Connor called on his friend Msgr. T. J. Jordan, dean of ten Rock Island-East Moline Roman Catholic churches for support. On Sunday before the election, the parish priests read an announcement of Msgr. Jordan from the pulpit: "The issue is simple-the choice of C.I.O.-U.A.W., a good American union, or Communist-dominated U.E.-F.E. Good Catholics, who know the evils of atheistic Communism, should vote . . . C.I.O.-U.A.W." Across the Mississippi in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, another seven priests joined the campaign. After the sermons, two U.E.-F.E. shop stewards bolted...