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...Bonanza. The men who made and kept the great Comstock fortunes were good gamblers with a certain kind of brains. Two of them, John W. Mackay and James G. Fair, had been pick-&-shovel men in their time. The two others, James C. Flood and William S. O'Brien, never -ot closer to mining than the floor of San Francisco's Mining Exchange. Mackay and Fair, who came to the top in the rough & tumble life of Virginia City, get more than two-thirds of Author Lewis' space...
...with a hot temper and a soft heart, Mackay became a miner for love of the exercise and a mine-owner for love of the game. In Virginia City he spent his evenings at a gymnasium taking on all comers for three bruising rounds each. His regimen was rare in a town where for a time every other building on the main street was a saloon, and where the brothels were the pride of the West. With another of Virginia City's diversions, however, Mackay was thoroughly at home, and that was speculation in mining stocks...
...London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the great annual festival of freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards...
...fill his column on a dull day, bright Ian Mackay of the London News Chronicle listed ten men whom he thought people might still be talking about 100 years from now.* Last week his paper asked four prominent Britons which of his ten would get their votes. Bernard Shaw would vote only for Composer Jean Sibelius, so Sibelius was the only unanimous immortal. (The other three pickers agreed on both Shaw and Sibelius.) Wrote Shaw: "As for Churchill and the other political gentlemen-it would be rash to include them...
...make its strike more effective, the union also slapped an "embargo" on eight other carriers (Mackay Radio, etc.) who were not involved in the strike, i.e., the union forbade any of its nonstriking workers to transmit overseas news to any newspaper or news agency...