Word: miner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely possible that Fine's decision to throw his delegates behind Ike Eisenhower or Bob Taft might decide who gets the nomination. Which side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure, the biggest Boy in the nation's Backroom...
...stepfather's small farm near Lowell, Ind., Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 35, the miner's "Cinderella" daughter who married Winthrop Rockefeller in 1948 and separated from him 2½ years ago, cried out against the false glitter of gold. Of the $1,000,000 trust fund set up by her husband last February for their three-year-old son, Winthrop Jr., Bobo said contemptuously: "It doesn't mean a thing. It's inadequate if he's to be raised to the station in life that a Rockefeller should be . . . A Rockefeller wasn...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). A new drama series produced by Worthington Miner. The Promise, with Robert Preston, Carol Bruce...
...newspaper for libel was advised by his lawyer: "Never sue. They might prove it on you." Last week in Nanticoke, Pa. (pop. 20,160) another politician proved the wisdom of this advice. Until he ran for mayor, Anthony B. Dreier, a 47-year-old ex-coal miner, never made much of a mark around coal-mining Nanticoke. But he proved to be an aggressive campaigner, charged that the politicians in power were allowing horse books, slot machines and punchboards to run in Nanticoke, was elected mayor in 1949 on an antigambling "Reform" ticket. Last summer he put his own "Independent...
About the only nonpolitical novelty scheduled by any of the networks is NBC's Curtain Call, to be produced in June by Worthington Miner, late of CBS's Studio One. Curtain Call will dramatize modern and classical short stories...