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...fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty...
...Savannah Most Rev. Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara, the tall, energetic Bishop of all the Catholics of Georgia, distinguished himself by storming violently at the Savannah Press. Reason: The newspaper ran a whimsical St. Patrick's Day editorial repeating the old fable crediting the Irish Saint with having granted women the privilege to woo during Leap Year...
...Philadelphia Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, chancellor of the archdiocese since 1926, was consecrated auxiliary bishop, assuming the post Bishop O'Hara relinquished when he was sent to Georgia. Another prelate from the tight, self-sufficient archdiocese of Philadelphia's Denis Cardinal Dougherty moved up in the hierarchy when Most Rev. George Leo Leech became Bishop of Harrisburg, succeeding the late Bishop Philip Richard McDevitt. After a month at his new job Bishop Leech astounded his 200 priests by calling each correctly by his first name as he knelt to kiss the Episcopal ring...
...judges in the debate here were Francis J. O'Hara, headmaster of the Thorndike School, Paul R. Bishop, director of the Bishop Lee School, and Frederick B. Taylor '99, Boston investment broker. The chairman was Moses O. Ware, formerly of the faculty of Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford...
...MARIETTA-Johan Fabricius-Little, Brown ($3). Looking back on the earlier 1930's, what would some Mark Sullivan of the future pick as typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply...