Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resident correspondent in Saigon for the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, Columban Father Patrick O'Connor, has reported much in accord with the conclusions reached lately by independent correspondents sent over by TIME and other media. Thus you reported in the Sept. 20 issue that "the Buddhist rebellion was directed by monks who were also consummate politicians, who were less interested in redressing religious injustices than in overthrowing the Diem regime." Father O'Connor reached somewhat the same conclusion in an Aug. 2 dispatch...
Concerning your statement (Sept. 20) that the resident correspondents "seldom miss a chance to overemphasize the ruling family's Roman Catholicism," Father O'Connor reported as far back as June 24 that "some foreign press reports continue to use expressions like 'Roman Catholic-dominated government' and 'Diem's Catholic minority government,' which Catholics here feel are inaccurate, unfair to the church, and an incitement, however unintentional, to religious animosity...
...Sequins. Sy is custom itself. He drapes David Niven aloofly and John Wayne toughly. He is the author of Bob Hope's tweeds. If Donald O'Connor wants to look like George M. Cohan, which for some reason he does, Sy cuts him a checkered vest. But he won't do just anything. He designed Liberace's first gold lame suit, but when the big Lib began demanding sequins for it, Sy sent him to a costume house...
Another incumbent, William M. O'Connor, who is allied with Mrs. Hicks, Eisenstadt, and Lee on the segregation issue, was fourth with 42,795 ballots...
...Louise Day Hicks, chairman of the school committee, topped the ballot with 63,103 votes, followed by committeemen Thomas Eisenstadt (62,590), Joseph Lee (62,263), and William O'Connor (42,795). All three have backed Mrs. Hicks in rejecting an NAACP charge of de facto segregation in Boston schools...