Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delmar Jackson's The Cut of the Axe; Rocco Fumento's Devil by the Tail; S. Leonard Rubenstein's World, Barbed Wire; Eugene Brown's Trespass; Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; and Oakley Hall's Corpus of Joe Bailey...
...Lack of funds has forced the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to slash emergency aid to polio patients, reported President Basil O'Connor. The $200,000 doled out last week "represents money 'borrowed' from funds committed to re search and education." To meet the short age, there will be an emergency March of Dimes next week...
...still energetic Beaver was simply arranging his estate to reduce the inheritance tax. He would actually keep control of the papers through stock held by his ' son. Max Aitken, 44, and as chairman of the new Beaverbrook Foundation. Said the London Daily Mirror's William ("Cassandra") Connor: "Fleet Street was not taken in by Lord Beaverbrook's grave-faced, solemn announcement . . . Lord Beaverbrook is a practiced performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe in the knowledge that the coffin...
...Live & Learn." The newspapers that had scoffed at the "hot gospeller" from the U.S. now wrote editorials of warm praise. Even the Daily Mirror's sharp-tongued columnist, "Cassandra" (William Connor), devoted more than a page to his second thoughts on the man he had called a "Hollywood version of John the Baptist...
...states, plans for the trial were being pressed along lines similar to Georgia's. From the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to health officers went masses of letters to parents signed by its president. Basil O'Connor, with informative pamphlets on the trials and cannily worded forms in which parents "request" that their children be "permitted" to take part...