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...electricians' foreman at Cape Canaveral earned $26,843 last year...
Childhood by Rockwell. Now 37, Jean Kerr was once Bridget Jean Collins of Scranton, Pa., the first of four children of a construction foreman who had emigrated from Ireland to find a career in the New World so that he could send back to County Cork for his sweetheart, Kitty O'Neill. Kitty, second cousin of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, is better known to readers of The Snake Has All the Lines as "My Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently...
...nine men, including the foreman -who later asserted that they had received assurances that their appearance had been okayed by federal authorities (it was not)-were seated around a long table at the WBAL studio. Also present (offstage) was a narrator who bridged awkward conversational gaps by making "clarifying" allusions for dramatic purposes of the hour-long taped show. The program was unsponsored, but the volunteer actors received $1 each for their ad-libbed efforts. "It was like a dream," one said, "like walking into a room and knowing what's going to happen...
...that he can actually make it the hard way. The boy works like a demon, impresses his boss. Then, fired for a theft he did not commit, he bitterly resolves on revenge. While trying to blow the boss's safe, he is surprised by a foreman, who attacks him with a crowbar. The boy panics, shoots his assailant dead, runs wildly through the streets till he is cornered in an empty house...
Some construction workers were engaged one day in repairing a road near New College, when along came several 'raggers' who asked for the foreman. They warned him that a group of undergraduates had dressed up as policemen and would arrive rather than by what they do--achieve-shortly to make him stop work on that section of road. Thereupon, the jokesters took off to the nearest police station where they informed the constabulary that some irresponsible undergraduates, masquerading as workmen, were tearing the road to pieces. The conspirators then hid. It didn't take long for both sides to discover...