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...students had built the igloo earlier with Longenecker's sister, Polly, 20, a senior at Connecticut College for Women. She returned to an Appalachian Mountain Club but for the night, however...
Only exceptions to this general forecast will be snow flurries along the Appalachian Mountains, rain in Oregon and Washington, and warm and sunny weather in Southern California, the Weather Bureau reported last night...
...work at 15, first as a machinist's helper and later as a clerk in a steel plant office. Phil Murray, then a United Mine Workers' vice president, hired McDonald as private secretary. But all the while he was learning the union ropes, in the tough Appalachian coal districts, Dave studied theater on the side. By 1932, he had won a certificate of graduation from Carnegie Tech's drama school, written a couple of one-act plays, dallied with a chance to go to Hollywood as an assistant director. Then history gave Dave McDonald and all other...
Germanium Hunt. The best ore of germanium, the scarce metal that goes into the magic electronic transistors (TIME, Feb. 11), may prove to be ordinary coal. Last week the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corp. was asking coal operators all over the Appalachian region to send in samples of coal for germanium assay...
Pitcher Ron Necciai, 19, of the Class D Appalachian League, looks like a refugee from a basketball team. As he unwinds his lanky (6 ft. 5 in., 185 Ibs.) frame on the pitcher's mound, his earnest contortions have a fatal fascination for batters. They can't seem to keep their eyes on the ball. In his first pitching start for the Bristol (Tenn.) Twins this year, Necciai struck out 20 men. He struck out 19 in his second game. In a relief role, he struck out 11 men in four innings. Last week, mixing a crackling fast...