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Friendly Non-Persuasion. Born in Yugoslavia, Kirchanski grew up in West Virginia, where his father was a coal miner and his mother worked in a factory. At eleven he was forced to go to work because his father died. Still he managed to purr through Detroit's Wayne State University in 2½ years, then shot for a doctorate in political science at Berkeley. When he ran out of money, Kirchanski turned to schoolteaching, was disappointed at slow progress in "airy, friendly" classrooms. By contrast, when he taught convicts, Kirchanski made rapid progress. Public schools, he decided, were...
...mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris, 39, a British coal miner turned student at McNeese State College in Lake Charles, La. Said Kelley: "That was a great show of sportsmanship." Said Norris. who never managed to get back in the race: "Somebody should have shot that blasted...
...time Robert was a bachelor approaching 50. But in recent weeks Gardiner had been seen with Eunice Oakes, the striking, thirtyish widow of William Pitt Oakes (who died in 1958, 15 years after the still unsolved murder in Nassau of his father, Multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes). One columnist even overheard Bobbie gush: "She sends me." Last week the Long Island lord ended the society-page speculation, gave Eunice an olive-sized diamond (plucked from a grandmother's earring), announced that on March 21 she would be to the manor borne. Why the rush? Replied Gardiner...
...Anne Miner's timothy in love is much better than her last published work; Deborah Eibel's Elderly Hostess reads like a vaguely interesting passage of prose chopped up and strung down the page in small pieces (like the tail of a kite); David Berman's Meletus in the Provinces evinces a competence which is entirely devoid of charm or excitement...
...union leaders. Like a panorama of the labor movement, the individual case histories unfold. Blackie Bowman is one of labor's gabby old soldiers. From the veterans' hospital bed on which he is dying, he does a flashback recall of his life as a seaman, a miner and a wobbly of the I.W.W. Mostly it is a schooling of hard knocks on his own skull, including a stretch in prison...