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Serling's hero-turned-villain is Bill Kilcoyne (played to the hilt by Old Pro Van Heflin), a rough-hewn factory worker whom circumstance elects as first president of his local. An idealist to begin with, he sells out for a mess of spoilage (a union vice-presidency) by making a deal with a union thug named Tony Russo. Before long, Kilcoyne lands in the deadly end-justifies-the-means trap, winds up condoning mutilation and murder, puts union funds into such investments as race tracks and silk ties. By the time a Senate committee gets...
...artist was U.S. Negro Baritone William Warfield. The place was the rough-hewn farming community of Warwick (pop. 10,000) in the Australian bush...
...they brought with them packets of state papers, copies of constitutions and history books, set to work writing a provisional constitution. For 75 days, the Alaskans labored, phrasing, rephrasing, arguing. At length, on Feb. 5, 1956, emotionally spent, physically exhausted, brimming with pride, they voted to approve a finely hewn document. "These are good, tough men and women, and I wondered if we might not be getting carried away," recalls Alaska University President Ernest N. Patty, "so I looked for [Real Estate Man] Muktuk Marsdon-this big, tough man with a face like granite. And there he was, digging tears...
Three thousand miles away in San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Thomas Coakley looked thoughtfully at the ax-hewn pine timbers of the oldest courthouse in California, picked up a pencil and began to write: "In the days when this courthouse was built, the law was young and often painful on this frontier. We developed in 1854 what our pioneers recognized, as did their forebears in the East, that there must be a respect...
...hard to tell what Christopher Fry's The Firstborn is about. The overall impression is of far-of solid stone-hewn figures in a somehow intensely pregnant atmosphere, speaking heavily, as from a tomb...