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Davis Bros.' hustling President John F. O'Hara, 36, hopes to cut into the Friday fish market, which he helps to supply, simply because this year he ran into a shortage of mackerel, normally 70% of the fish he cans. Fishermen were pulling in plenty of tuna along the East Coast, but that was not much help: it was the dark, oilier tuna (horse mackerel to fishermen), and could not compete with the West Coast's white tuna...
...Hara soon found a way out. He heard that Boston's Packers' Laboratory, a research company, had developed frankfurters made from tuna, and he made a deal to market them. He is now producing 1,000,000 franks a day and has sold his entire output for the present to a chain of grocery stores. The franks come only in cans as Davis has not yet worked out a way to preserve their flavor in the bulk. The price...
...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
...loudspeaker. At each stopping place the travelers seek out the local priest and with him go to work on a street corner preaching, answering questions, passing out pamphlets. This project has been especially effective in reclaiming backsliders. As a result of one such mission, says Bishop O'Hara, he last year confirmed 23 members of a single family in the Ozark Mountain country...
...decade at Kansas City Bishop O'Hara has put up 30 churches in rural counties, 25 of which had never before had a Catholic church. He is now in the process of building a church in Hickory County-the only county in the diocese which is still without one. "There is not a single Catholic family in Hickory County," said Bishop O'Hara last week. "But." he added "there will...