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Sir William Neil Connor (26 April 1909 – 6 April 1967) was an English newspaper journalist for the Daily Mirror who wrote under the pen name of "Cassandra". Biography William Connor wrote a regular column for over 30 years between 1935 and 1 February 1967 with a short intermission for the Second World War, his column restarting after the war with the words "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, it is a powerful hard thing to please all of the people all of the time." He took his pen-name from Cassandra in Greek mythology, a tragic character who is given the gift of prophecy by Apollo but is then cursed so that no one will ever believe her.The very popular column helped the Mirror's readership to grow to the highest in its history during the 1950s. His columns were simply written, in keeping with his working class readership, and comprised slices of human life, including famous people, events and later a personal diary of his everyday life and thoughts – though at times he could be controversial. He worked alongside cartoonist Philip Zec at the Daily Mirror and the pair courted controversy in 1942 with an illustration, captioned by Connor, which Winston Churchill and others perceived as an attack on government. Churchill complained to Cecil King, then a director of the company, of a writer (Connor) being "dominated by malevolence". Connor forgave Churchill though, and later wrote a moving obituary of the wartime Prime Minister ("Sword in the Scabbard", 25 January 1965) and attended his funeral service at St. Paul's Cathedral. In his best known columns, Connor said the author P. G. Wodehouse was a Nazi collaborator, a charge from which George Orwell defended Wodehouse, and in 1956 he strongly suggested that the entertainer Liberace was a homosexual. The suggestion was true, but Liberace sued for libel (Liberace v Daily Mirror) and won in 1959. During the case both Connor and Liberace lied under oath.According to Roy Greenslade, Connor was "an odd mix of liberal and reactionary", citing for the former his column attacking the enactment of the death sentence delivered to Ruth Ellis due on the day of its publication. He wrote: "The one thing that brings stature and dignity to mankind and raises us above the beasts will have been denied her – pity and the hope of ultimate redemption."In the years leading up to his death, Connor wrote more humorous columns and was regarded with affection by Mirror readers. Subjects ranged from the times he received wrong number calls intended for a nearby railway goods station, to the mysterious person who sent him a fresh goose egg once a year. Connor was knighted in 1966. His final column ended with the words "Normal service in this column is temporarily interrupted while I learn to do what any babe can do with ease and what comes naturally to most men of good conscience – to sleep easily o' nights." He died aged 57 in hospital, a month after fracturing his skull in a fall.Since his death, the column Cassandra in the Daily Mirror has continued to be sporadically published. A new columnist, Keith Waterhouse, took over Connor's place in the newspaper, but not his byline. References External links "The Press: Cassandra of the Mirror", Time, 11 October 1954 Cassandra, includes Connor's Cassandra's Cats book and various photos. Crying All The Way To The Bank at Amazon.co.uk Cassandra At His Finest And Funniest at Amazon.co.uk. Discover the William O Connor popular books. Find the top 100 most popular William O Connor books.
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Dead Big Dawg
Victoria HoustonMurder, She Wrote meets Fargo in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the nineteenth “gripping, atmospheric, and smart” (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author) installme...
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Sulfur Springs
William Kent KruegerThe New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace weaves a vivid and pulsepounding thriller that follows Cork O’Connor’s search for a missing man amid the fraught tensions at...
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Great Irish Reportage
John HorganReports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the firstever anthology of Irish reportage.Alongside its worldfamous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known...
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fa...
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Ordinary Grace
William Kent KruegerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013From New York Times bestselling aut...
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Crash Dive
Larry BondEdited by bestselling author Larry Bond, Crash Dive collects the best nonfiction writing on submarines, the nearsilent killers of the deep and their crews. They are the ultimate u...
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Mrs. Robert O. Wilson v. William A. Oconnor
Dallas the Fifth Court of Civil AppealsThis is an appeal by Mrs. Robert O. Wilson, defendantlandlady, from an adverse judgment rendered against her and in favor of her former tenant, William A. OConnor, based on TEX.REV...
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A Sharp Solitude
Christine CarboA gripping new mystery from the “fresh new voice in the thriller genre” (Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author) and author of The Wild Inside, set in the magnificent and b...
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After the Parade
Lori OstlundThe debut novel from awardwinning author Lori Ostlund“smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty” (Publishers Weekly) that “provides considerable pleasure and emotional power” (The Ne...
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The Brethren
Bob Woodward & Scott ArmstrongThe Brethren is the first detailed behindthescenes account of the Supreme Court in action.Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view...
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Becoming RBG
Debbie LevyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I Dissent comes a biographical graphic novel about celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Supreme Court justice Ruth Bad...
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The Bigness of the World
Lori OstlundWinner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize, the Edmund White Award, and the California Book Award, Lori Ostlund’s “heartbreaking and wonderful” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Ru...
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The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
Thomas Nashe & J. SteaneWritten in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabeth...
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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Amanda L. TylerRuth Bader Ginsburg’s final book offers an intimate look at her extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender equality and a “more perfect Union.”In the fall of 20...
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Rue Marquis De Sade
Morgana BaronAs Charlotte travels to Europe to claim her share of her father's legacy, her thoughts turn inevitably to Veronica, her sensual, sadistic stepsister, whom she will be seeing again ...
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Windigo Island
William Kent KruegerCork O’Connor battles vicious villains, both mythical and modern, to rescue a young girl in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author Willia...
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Dinners with Ruth
Nina TotenbergCelebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and lifeaffirming relationships, including her beautiful friendsh...
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Complete Western Romance of William MacLeod Raine
William RaineHe was awarded an M.L. degree from the University of Colorado where he had established that school's first journalism course. During the First World War 500,000 copies of one of hi...
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William P. Oconnor v. State Indiana
Supreme Court Of IndianaDefendant Miller Brewing Co. appeals the judgment of the Monroe Superior Court awarding plaintiff Best Beers of Bloomington, Inc. $397,000.00 in compensatory damages and $1,989,260...
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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThe spectacular, historymaking first novel about a young man’s coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth cen...
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Chanter
William O'ConnorPoetry originally published on webblogsite: http://www.hearthealingthechariotway.blogsite.com by William O'Connor
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Writers
Barry GiffordIn Writers, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, an...
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Scalia
Bruce Allen Murphy“[Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinker...
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I Dissent
Debbie LevyGet to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgin the first picture book about her lifeas she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!Supreme Court ...
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Manitou Canyon
William Kent KruegerIn the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at...
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Rellotge sense agulles
Carson McCullers"La millor escriptora que ha donat el sud dels Estats Units", Tennessee Williams Rellotge sense agulles és l'última novel·la de Carson McCullers, publicada l'any 1961, pocs anys ab...
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Handing One Another Along
Robert Coles, Trevor Hall & Vicki KennedyIn this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostere...
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The Modern Library
Carmen Callil & Colm TóibínFor Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their sele...
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Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich & Dr Elizabeth SpearingComing from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite of the great medieval city of Norwich, nevertheless uses her womanlines and th...
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William Oconnor v. State Indiana
Supreme Court Of IndianaThe appellant William OConnor was charged with second degree murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the cause for a new trial. I...
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William Oconnor Et Al. v. City New York
Court of Appeals of New YorkThis appeal presents the question whether a municipality may be held liable for its inspectors failure to discover a leak in a gas system that ultimately caused an explosion. Inasm...