Word: hara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pocket-sized reprints of John O'Hara's best-seller. "A Rage to Live," have been banned from all local news stands by the Cambridge police because of "certain obscene sections in the book." Chief Patrick F. Ready disclosed last night...
...Hara declined to comment on the police move when contacted yesterday at his Princeton, N.J., home...
...People Against O'Hara brings Spencer Tracy to the screen at Loew's State and Orpheum. As an aging but convincing criminal lawyer, Tracy dies trying to save his lying client...
...People Against O'Hara (MGM) deals with dipsomania and murder against the background of Manhattan's Fulton fish market. Lawyer Spencer Tracy, withdrawn from criminal practice because he was becoming involved emotionally in the struggle for clients' lives, reluctantly agrees to defend a neighborhood boy accused of murder. As the pressures mount, Tracy places more & more reliance on alcohol, ineptly bribes a state's witness, and fumbles his attempt to pin the crime on Waterfront Boss Eduardo Cianneili...
...number of suicides in Japan rose from 10,105 in 1944 to 18,368 last year. Time-honored hara-kiri is giving way to less spectacular methods-hanging, poisoning, drowning or jumping in front of trains. Main motives: money troubles, disillusionment with the postwar world, ill-health, thwarted love...