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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ride into Steel. The town of Pigeon Run, where Ben Fairless was born, was a small cluster of sooty frame houses hard by the hillside coal pits where Fairless' father, David Williams, grubbed out a meager living for his wife and four children. Williams had such a hard time making ends meet that his wife's sister, Sarah Fairless, took five-year-old Ben to live with her in nearby Justus. In the front room of their house by the railroad tracks, her husband, Jacob Fairless, ran a grocery. The couple adopted Ben, and he took their name...
...Ben started selling papers (the Cleveland Press), later worked as a janitor at the high school until he graduated, taught country school during the winters to pay for his summer schooling at Wooster college, a Presbyterian school noted for its earnest emphasis on hard work and scholarship. Wooster was full of young men equally determined to get ahead. Ben ate at a boarding house where Robert E. Wilson, now chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, waited on table, and played on a baseball team (the "Never-Sweats") with Karl T. Compton, now chairman of the corporation of M.I.T., and Karl...
Pinch-Hitter. When the plant was finished, Ben talked General Manager Fred Griffiths into keeping him on as a field engineer. Ben knew little about steel, but a lot about baseball, and that knowledge came in handy. Ohio companies, rich with war profits, had organized the famed "outlaw" Midwest League, and were recruiting Big Leaguers for their teams. Fairless was given the job of rounding up a team, the "Agathons." He managed it so well-smoothing" over the constant squabbling of the stars-that the Agathons won the league pennant. Fred Griffiths, impressed by Fairless' peacemaking talents, threw...
Some of the other Houses have not yet cast their productions, but Eliot plans to present Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" on December 17, Kirkland will stage John Dryden's "Amphitryon" and Winthrop is considering William Congreve's "Love for Love...
...good (e.g., gulping jelly beans at a poker game, only to learn he has devoured $5,000 worth of substitute chips), he is as funny as anyone on the screen. When he is bad (e.g., making cross-eyes), he is as tiresome as a small boy imitating Ben Turpin...