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Mississippi-born Robert Ernest Milner had scarcely learned to read when he decided there must be more to life than following a mule along the rows of a piney woods cotton farm. At seven, young Milner-dubbed "Dumas" by his family because he tagged after a hired hand by that name-signed up to sell an elixir called Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped...
...tall, white-haired Prime Minister beamed as he walked back to his box after inspecting the prize cattle at the annual Rand Show in Johannesburg's Milner Park. It was a warm, sunny Saturday, and Hendrik Verwoerd's speech had been particularly suitable for the 50th anniversary of South African nationhood. "We shall not be killed!" he shouted to the thousands of whites in the grandstand. "We shall fight for our existence, and we shall survive." He took his seat beside his wife Betsie, not noticing David Pratt, a wispy, 54-year-old Transvaal farmer in green tweeds...
...seems probable that she will make suburbia after all, for on the bus, in the final, movie-ending ride away from carefree childhood, sits the man who has waited for her to grow up-Playwright Wally (Marty Milner). Except for his freckles and the wide-rimmed spectacles he uses to help hide them, Wally looks, talks, thinks and acts just like the lawyer or the doctor: conventional, respectable and successful. Thus, Marjorie's parents (Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane) can rest assured that middle-class morality has triumphed...
...routine for lottery-covering newsmen, but last week all Australia waited breathless while the big Tasmanian barrel roared to a stop and English Cricket Star Alec Bedser reached for the marble that would pay someone more than half a million dollars. In the Sydney slum suburb of Redfern, Mary Milner fell on her knees as she heard the number read out over the radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband, a $42-a-week glassworks inspector, the local baker, a manufacturer, a bootmaker, a bookkeeper and a news agent. Said Joe Milner: "It comes sudden." Said...
When Lillie, the judge's golden-haired daughter, caught the eye of Jess Knight, a local farm lad, Judge Milner influenced Jess to get a law degree after he got Lillie's hand. Jess and Lillie obediently went off to the University of Michigan...