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...week as TIME'S press run begins in Chicago, one of the first copies off the press is sealed in an envelope marked "Not for Release" and rushed special delivery to nearby Glencoe, Ill. By Tuesday noon, a day before TIME appears on most newsstands, Mrs. Gerald F. Miner, a 52-year-old grandmother, has begun leafing through her copy. Then a second and more specialized TIME press run begins. The sound, instead of the roar of rotary presses, is the soft plunk of a six-key braille typewriter. Mrs. Miner is laboriously pecking out TIME'S cover...
...Friday Mrs. Miner has sandwiched 15 hours of typing time among the chores of a housewife. She stuffs the 26-to 30-page completed cover story into a Manila envelope, drops it in the mail. By Saturday, Richard Kinney, deaf-blind instructor at Winnetka's Hadley School for the Blind, has begun to run his fingers across one of the few up-to-date news stories available to him (most braille transcribing lags weeks behind publication dates, and for the deaf-blind, for whom radio is useless, news almost always grows stale before it is read). Kinney, who never...
...when his widow telegraphed Montana's governor that the winning model of the seven submitted in a competition for a statue was "unlike the real Charlie Russell." World War II halted a second effort. Meantime, Charlie's friends and admirers -including just about every hard-rock miner, drive-in carhop and state legislator in the Treasure State-dug into their jeans for $75,000 to build a museum in Great Falls to house his works, anted up again to buy a collection of Russell paintings valued...
...dancer of the gopak (hearing of this, Stalin once ordered him to dance the gopak; he did), and a prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer's all right for the Germans, but vodka...
...treasures-is Frank M. McMahon, 54, chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd. and president of Westcoast Transmission, whose new 650-mile pipeline will start carrying gas this fall from the Peace River area to Vancouver and the U.S. border. The Canadian-born son of a wandering hard-rock miner, Oilman McMahon quit college to become a prospector himself, bounced from drilling rig to drilling rig until the 1940s, when he moved into the Peace River area above Edmonton in search of gas and oil. When the provincial government lifted leasehold restrictions on Peace River lands in 1947, McMahon snapped...