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...huge-muscled Irishman who holds the world's wrestling championship, Danno O'Mahoney is not averse to defending his title against all fly-by-nights who wish to grapple. Last week at Holyoke, Mass, the champion stepped into the ring for a bout with an obscure challenger named Judson. Before the fun started, a wild-eyed French-Canadian, named Yvon Robert, who had persistently but unsuccessfully sought a match with O'Mahoney, was called into the ring, introduced to the customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there...
...where an impression has grown that the Holy Father this winter is on increasingly thin geographical ice, the Fianna Fail (Government Party) Convention was besought last week in Dublin to offer "sanctuary in Ireland" to Pius XI. Cried the sponsor of this proposal, Cork City Delegate Eoin O'Mahoney, "I believe that as a result of sanctions Italy will be smashed, and if Mussolini goes the Holy Father will have...
Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge...
...this time the New York Times had editorialized for withdrawal. The New York Herald Tribune's Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer decried Mr. Mahoney's objections, drew a two-column letter of protest from Editor Isaac Landman of the American Hebrew. The New York Post polled 35 members of the Olympic Committee, found 28 for participation, four against, three noncommittal. In Oakland, Calif., Fencer Helene Mayer, in whose behalf Mr. Sherrill had gone to Germany, said she had received no invitation to compete for Germany. In Chicago, Chairman Brundage of the American Olympic Committee made the sweeping statement which...
Final sparks in last week's angry squabbles came from Dr. Lewald in Germany. He announced that he had finally received Jeremiah T. Mahoney's open letter. He also exhibited a cable from tactful Helene Mayer. The cable: "Sickness delayed answering [invitation]. Acceptance left yesterday. Love...