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...Dear Father Masaryk," as Prague papers like to call him, was the son of a one-time serf, an illiterate Slovak coachman on an imperial Habsburg estate. At 13 young Masaryk was ready but too young to enter a teacher's training school. He worked for a blacksmith for a while, then went on with his schooling, supporting himself by tutoring. At 26 he earned a Ph.D. in Vienna...
...readers, though they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune. He is happy with his young wife, his adored only...
Near Gainesville, Ga., Blacksmith Hamby Patterson, 70, proudly flashed a set of homemade teeth, explaining: "When my teeth begun to ache, my grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...
...smoky blacksmith shop of Hugh McMahan at Newport, Tenn. last week, a young New Yorker named Don Cahill was discussing the NRA. Blacksmith McMahan was an NRA man. Cahill was not. Resenting the city man's talk, the patriotic blacksmith let his temper get the better of him. He picked up one of his tools and flung it at Cahill. Cahill flung back. The blacksmith flung another, Cahill returned it, and Blacksmith McMahan drew his gun shot Cahill dead...