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According to Lamont, on the night before the Texas Gulf board meeting, a Canadian weekly, The Northern Miner, front-paged the story of the ore strike-under a headline TEXAS GULF COMES UP WITH A "MAJOR." Copies of the paper had arrived in Manhattan and Toronto brokerage houses well before his phone call'. At 9:40 a.m. on the day of the meeting, Ontario Mines Minister G: C. Wardrope summoned Toronto reporters and confirmed the find. By 10:20, reporters at a Texas Gulf press conference in New York were phoning in their stories of the find...
...JONES: IT'S NOT UNUSUAL (Parrot). Now it is a Welsh miner's son, a curlyheaded six-footer with a bronze voice and a pair of leather lungs, who belts out Chuck Berry songs like Memphis Tennessee. Jones dips into folk as well (Skye Boat Song), but runs down in sentimental ballads like It's Just a Matter of Time...
...Mileage." The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Morgan is a physician with a $45,000-a-year practice back in the mining community of Fredericktown, Pa., to which he commutes on weekends. "To me," says Morgan, "taking a foreign aid bill through is just like going to the operating room. Many critics say Morgan uses a bedside manner. Well, I make very few enemies in committee or on the floor. I use kindness, and I get a lot of mileage...
Died. Childs Frick, 81, Manhattan art patron, whose coke-and coal-rich father Henry Clay Frick built a $5,000,000 mansion on Fifth Avenue ("I'll make Carnegie's house look like a miner's shack!"), stoked it with $50 million worth of art, and left it to the public as the Frick Collection, which his son supervised as trustee since 1921; of a heart attack; in Roslyn...
...agents and fire swept the gold towns, gamblers and prostitutes cleaned up, and children entertained themselves by re-enacting the latest lynching. Such a climate is perfectly suited to the talents of the two characters who dominate the book. Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners. On Wall Street meanwhile, his cousin Joshua Ching is even more brutal and even more successful...