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...prison. He is not the kind to take orders from the man who was once his protege. Hoffa, in fact, will still retain a Teamster title or two. While in prison, he was elected head of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters as well as president of his home-town local in Detroit. No law bars him from assuming these posts once he is out of prison. From there, it might be only a short sprint back to the summit...
...been a wide-eyed lover of law ever since his childhood in Morganton, N.C. (pop. 13,000). As a boy, he hung around the Burke County courthouse watching his lawyer father argue cases dressed in Victorian cutaway tails. After graduating from Harvard Law School ('22), Ervin married his home-town sweetheart, joined his father's law firm, and polished his oratory as a young state legislator. He once quashed a bill that would have outlawed the teaching of evolution in public schools with the objection that "such a resolution serves no good purpose except to absolve monkeys...
...wives it is often like a cruise ship: the rules of behavior seem formidably strange at first, as do one's fellow passengers, and one feels a yearning for the familiar comforts of home. But after a while the routine becomes second nature, and certain attractions begin to reveal themselves: the esprit de corps of participating in a common adventure, a feeling of liberation from home-town pressures and personalities, the stimulus of new people with disparate backgrounds and ideas...
...federal training funds came through last month. Within a week, 25 blacks were being trained, but not in highly paid unions like the electricians', plumbers' and steam fitters'. Arthur Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor, sums up the situation: "Neither the Philadelphia Plan nor the various home-town plans have accomplished a darn thing...
...Road. Born Woodrow Charles Herman on May 16. 1913, in Milwaukee, Woody was only six when his show-business father began pushing him onto home-town stages as a singer-dancer. By the age of 17, he had become a member of the Tom Gerun band. A few years later, he joined the old Isham Jones band, and when Jones dissolved the group in 1936, Woody reorganized it as "the Band That Plays the Blues." By the early 1940s, he was ready to gallop with the Herds. For the past 24 years he has spent only about six weeks...