Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small boys, grown men-and especially Irishmen-love secret societies. In 1882, Father Michael J. McGivney, a Roman Catholic priest in New Haven, Conn., was so worried about this tendency that he decided to join it. Though he knew that church teaching forbade Catholics to join existing secret organizations, he proposed to his fellow priests of the Hartford diocese that they start a society of their own, to keep their immigrant Irish-Catholic parishioners out of the clutches of groups like the Masons or the Oddfellows. Wrote Father McGivney, "Our primary object is to prevent our people from entering secret...
Item Company was sent up to replace battle-worn Baker Company on the hill; the men patched up their prefab bunkers and settled in. Captain Howard ("Spike") Connolly, commanding, set out the bright green battle flag of St. Michael, made for the Marines by Korean orphans. In the next twelve hours, the opposing sides fired off two of the most concentrated artillery and mortar barrages of the war. On about 800 yards of front, the U.S. dropped 32,000 rounds, the Chinese 15,000 rounds. Item Company Marines waited, their eyes strained by sleepless vigilance, endless concussions and flying dust...
...handful of Chinese popped out of the trench, killed four marines in their holes with grenades, broke through the line to Captain Connolly's CP, where the shrapnel-torn flag of St. Michael was still flying. Connolly radioed his men to move in from each side to seal the breach, then helped to pick off the attackers himself. Shortly he was radioing back to battalion: "Lines breached, now consolidated...
Horatio Hornblower (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). A new series, starring Michael Redgrave, based on C. S. Forester's hero...
...Ohio, Stevenson will get little help from impish, blimpish Michael V. Di Salle, onetime Price Boss now running for U.S. Senator against the incumbent John Bricker, who is probably the best vote getter in Ohio. The G.O.P. ticket is further buttressed by the candidacy of Bob Taft's brother Charles for the governorship now held by popular Democrat Frank Lausche. If anybody can beat Lausche, Charles Taft...