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...Conference's founder, Father Edwin Vincent O'Hara, now Bishop of Kansas City, says that Catholicism urgently needs 10,000 strong country parishes. Instead, 1,022 of the U.S.'s 2,952 counties have no resident Catholic priest at all and another 500 have no Catholic priest in their rural sections...
...Joey. John O'Hara's hoofer-heel set to music by Rodgers & Hart...
...Bruce started with a $6,000 allotment from the Public Buildings Administration, picked the Marine Hospital at Carville, La., where some 400 lepers needed cheering up, and announced a nationwide water color competition. Bruce got together a jury of four well-known U.S. water-colorists (Eliot O'Hara, Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Buk Ulreich) and told them to pick 300 pictures, 200 to be purchased with Government funds, 100 with a Carnegie Corporation fund of $3,000. Pictures were to be paid for at a uniform price: $30. Any extra pictures the jury selected were to be sold...
James Cain has a cold authority about suburban vice which could yield an invaluable gloss on Middletown or even on the works of Lardner and O'Hara. His trouble is not knowing when to stop. His money gets so cold, his sex so hot, his snobbery so snakelike and his dirty work so predictably subhuman, that their victims are scarcely more than caricatures of human fallibility. But the drugstore-library sensationalism that still overhangs Cain's work does not stop him from being one of the most readable storytellers in the U.S. He has broadened his subject matter...
...year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden's daughter Byrniece sued musi-comedy veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with bigamy and sued for seduction and fraud by the hula dancer he married while Evelyn Thorye was still his wife, won an annulment of the hula marriage, withdrawal...