Word: mchugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that domineering, salt-crusted Patrick J. McHugh had tight control over Massachusetts' fishing fleet. The 4,200 members of his independent Atlantic Fishermen's Union manned practically every sizeable trawler, dragger and gill-netter that sailed out of New Bedford, Gloucester and Boston. The union had its own selling rooms in Gloucester and New-Bedford, and dictated who could and who could not buy there...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Joseph Conrad's Victory. Speakers: Eugene O'Neill Jr., Novelist Vincent McHugh, Rutgers Philosophy Professor Houston Peterson...
...have been one of the pleasantest surprises of the season if it had lived up to the best that is in it. As it stands, it is an uneven but unexpectedly engaging musical, featuring some nice, attractive people (notably Eddie Albert and Joan Edwards), some nice songs by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson (notably I Guess I'll Have That Dream Right Now), and some fresh story ideas (by Mary Loos, Anita's niece...
...Vincent McHugh, formerly noted for prose (Sing Before Breakfast), became a notable poet overnight when veteran Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner got McHugh's publishers into a Manhattan court on an obscenity charge. The book under discussion: McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe...
Costs of Court. In Milwaukee, Mrs. John Elliott, haled into court for nonpayment of rent, tearfully told about her five children whom her husband had deserted, received donations of $73 from courtroom onlookers, $10 from the judge, $5 from Complainant Vincent McHugh...