Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York the Yankee Stadium and its 70,000 seats was the issue. Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Oilman Ray Ryan of the Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...
...Eliot, standouts were Boyce, Quinn, Kelley, and Kavanaugh, while Harrison, Sutton, and Ryan looked good for Lowell in a losing cause...
...bears are probably the best thing in the show, but they get a lot of friendly competition from Miss Allbritton's four barbaric little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...
...Speaker Ryan was just getting warmed up when questions from the audience began to fly thick & fast: "Why is the Catholic Bible different from the Protestant Bible? Why don't Catholics read the Bible? Why did the Catholic Church chain the Bible in the Middle Ages?" Betty Ryan kept her poise and sense of humor, had her answers pat. Said she, stepping down after 20 minutes: "North Carolina was never like this...
...Betty Ryan and her hecklers were only putting on a demonstration, at the National Catholic Evidence Conference. But this summer she was doing the real thing in North Carolina-standing up on street corners to win converts to Catholicism, or at least explain away prejudice against...