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Eldest son of eight children in the family of a North Attleboro, Mass, blacksmith, Joe Martin began his career 50 years ago peddling papers. He turned down a scholarship at Dartmouth to go to work as a reporter, finally bought minority ownership of the North Attleboro Chronicle. With a sudden passion for politics, he got himself elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Scotch-Irish, he talked a familiar language in Massachusetts. In 1925 he went to Congress, where he still perches -in appearance a typical small-town New England politician-scrupulous, honest, popular, potent...
Into the Detroit smithy of Wagon-maker August Charles Fruehauf (rhymes with blew-off) one day in 1915 walked a lumber dealer. To the blacksmith he posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...
...programs which promised "an amazing expose of the intimate life of the Mad Dog of Europe." The picture did not quite live up to the promise. It described the hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft-looking Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after the War. The late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chaney played walrus-whiskered Admiral von Tirpitz, as mild-looking a Santa Claus as ever ordered an ocean liner spurlos versenkt (sunk without trace...
...wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling in the hard facts of politics, business, labor; as a poet, a big Swede trying...