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...been a sheep drover, navvy, gold prospector, ship's cook, waiter, locksmith, umbrella mender, a seller of fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said...
Enter the Villain. By such good reports in recent years, the Erie, once "synonymous with bankruptcy, litigation, fraud and failure," has lived down its reputation as the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street." The man who seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...
Based on fact, The Overlanders is a hard-riding yarn about a drover who refused to shoot 1,000 head of cattle, decided to "overland" them across 1,600 miles of forbidding mountains and desert. The storytelling, acting and incidental romancing are not quite up to Hollywood Standards. But the jagged, weirdly beautiful landscapes are novel and interesting...
Undisputed star of this first feature film produced in Australia with British backing is a breezy, 6 ft. 6 in. ex-drover named Chips Rafferty, currently Australia's Gary Cooper...
Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Harry Bitner of the Hearstpapers, John Cowles of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett (see col. 2), the Chicago Tribune's McCormick, the publisher of the Chicago Drover's Journal and 558 other publishing executives great and small from up & down the land converged in Chicago last week for a one-day emergency convention. It would be, they had been told, a "most important meeting" (TIME, June 28). At the rallying cry of Nashville's young James Geddes ("Jimmy...