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...charge of coping with a politically explosive housing shortage (TIME, Dec. 1), Sir Keith ("Smoky Joe") Joseph, 44, who worked his way up in the family's building business from hod carrier to director, is a fellow of All Souls, Oxford (and married to an American, Hellen Guggenheimer). Macmillan emphasized the government's aim to expand Britain's health services by bringing into his Cabinet Health Minister Enoch Powell, 49, a blunt, brilliant scholar and poet who was a full professor of Greek at 24, a wartime brigadier...
...year-old governor was born in tallan district in Wakefield, the son tallan immigrants. He started in the business as a hod carrier later a journeyman plasterer, established his own building firm during the session of the 30's, and by the age of 40 had completed his Horatio Alger drive as a millionaire contractor...
John Philip Kennedy, 42, an ex-hod carrier who put himself through a Boston night-school accountancy course, is a one-term state representative who wants to be reelected. Father of seven, he got into politics (as town councilman in Everett) in 1948, and proudly asserts: "Put me down as one of the original Kennedys." Bidding half-heartedly for a state senate seat is I. (for Irving) John Kennedy, 47, manager of Boston's Zebra cocktail lounge. John Joseph Kennedy, 36, a salesman for "Roost-No-Mor" bird repellent, is running for commissioner of Norfolk County, thinks...
Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly Sr., who died last month at 70, left a self-drawn last will and testament just as fabulous and full of fun as most of his life. Happy Jack Kelly, up from hod carrying to become a millionaire and father of a Princess, wanted no squabbling over his estate. All his legatees knew in advance exactly what he meant to leave them. With that matter out of the way, Kelly sat down and penned words of wit and wisdom. To his sons-in-law (including Monaco's Prince Rainier), he left nary a penny...
...Washington's quiet scandals is that few Negro construction craftsmen can get jobs in the nation's capital. Reason: most building contractors hire only union workers (a union shop is required on Government jobs), and many Washington building-trades locals have successfully barred Negroes. While the Hod Carriers and the Bricklayers have let down color bars, the two Carpenters' locals (5,000 members) have only half a dozen Negroes. The Rodmen's local (membership: 250) has six. The Painters (membership: 700) and the Plumbers (700) are proudly lily white. But by far the hardest nosed...