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Last week's anniversary celebration was a national symposium at Kansas City on "The Good Life in an Industrial Era." Sponsor and chairman was able, energetic, pro-labor Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, who as a young priest in Oregon helped draft the U.S.'s first minimum-wage law and became the defendant in Stettler v. O'Hara when the law was tested and upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1931 he was the only American bishop present when Pius XI delivered Quadragesimo Anno, and spoke for the U.S. as delegates from each Christian nation...
...great-grandfather was famed, hotheaded Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart. Her initial E stands for Elizabeth; she dropped the name to spite her twice-divorced mother. With 20 Ib. less, Stuart might be called a Scarlett O'Hara type. She traveled in Europe and Mexico, attended two private schools, knows the Greenwich Village nightclubs, drives two big cars furiously and admits she has turned down ten marriage proposals. Once she gave a house party that lasted six weeks. Boss of a 1,200-acre estate, Axton Lodge, Stuart lives alone with an old colored mammy and an adopted brother...
...Testament is ready now. Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara of Kansas City, head of the revisory committee, says that by 1944 U.S. Catholics should have a new Old Testament as well...
...first novel out this week, What Makes Sammy| Run?,* Hollywood got a harpooning in just the way it argued could never be done. The evasive town had dodged shots by some expert marksmen-Novelists Aldous Huxley, John O'Hara, Nathanael West. But each seemed only to snag a loose end: the writer's world, the cowboys of Gower Gulch, the comedy of studio pomposity, the empty splendor of its rich...
Died. Walter Edmund O'Hara, fiery, gambling Rhode Island Irishman, onetime managing director of the famed Narragansett Racing Association, who took Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn's election in 1936 as a personal tribute, later brawled historically with him, bankrupting his Providence newspaper, losing his race track, running unsuccessfully for Governor in 1938; when his Packard piled head on into another car near the Taunton, Mass. dog-racing track...