Word: haras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA-John O'Hara-Harcourt, Brace...
Presented is the city of Gibbsville, Pa. (pop.: 24,032), battening on the anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called the Slump. In a story of only three days, John O'Hara succeeds in covering as much ground about Gibbsville as Sinclair Lewis did in describing Gopher Prairie (Main Street) in three years. He writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality...
...your account of the Reverend John F. O'Hara's appointment to the presidency of the University of Notre Dame [TIME, July 16], you are guilty of a serious misstatement. To accuse Father O'Hara of being disinterested in "his university's famed football team in action" is to belie TIME'S boast of accuracy. True, Notre Dame's new president has seen only a very few football games during his several years as the University's Prefect of Religion; but his not seeing more has been motivated by the fine spirit...
...unlikely climax to a career which began in Montevideo, Uruguay. 29 years ago. Son of the U. S. Legation secretary, John O'Hara became private secretary to the U. S. Minister at 17. In 1906 he was making market surveys for the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce, in 1907 following his father to Santos, Brazil as consular clerk. Then he went back to the U. S. and entered Notre Dame...
Father O'Hara has never cared much about watching his university's famed football team in action. But before every game, each of which is dedicated to a saint, Notre Dame footballers go to him at the Shrine of St. Olaf for prayer and blessing. When President Emeritus Henry Smith Pritchett of Carnegie Foundation pointed an accusing finger at what he called Notre Dame commercialism last year, Father O'Hara snapped back: "He starts with the false assumption that highly publicized football is inimical to scholastic attainment." Then he went on to point out how football profits...