Word: heenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Roman Catholics are also making an intensive drive for the lost and strayed. Under the leadership of tall, scholarly Father John Carmel Heenan, 43, superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...
Married. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, flapper-era child bride and later burlesqueen; and Ralph N. Willson, 36, former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Break-a-Heart Ranch, near Reno...
...Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, relict of Millionaire "Daddy" Browning and favorite child bride of the tabloids in the '20s, said that she was going to marry her fourth. After Browning had come 1) a Denver showman, 2) a San Francisco department-store tycoon. Groom-in-prospect: Ralph N. Willson, a former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker...
Divorced. By Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, child bride (at 15) of late Manhattan Millionaire Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, who grew up to be a burlesqueen: Joseph Civelli, 62, San Francisco store executive, her third daddy; in Reno...