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...bought the daily Manhattan Mercury. Worked his way at Kansas State College in Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate because he rebelled against the science-heavy required curriculum. Undisputed highlight of his college career: a scene in a student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married...
...friends of the then Dean, Leroy M.S. Miner D.M.D. '40, who saw him going out with the old School, rallied to save him. "You're at the wrong meeting," the chairman told Maloney. "You should be at the Association of Medical Schools meeting." Maloney discovered that a special session was scheduled specifically to turn down Harvard, and he withdrew the application...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...
...House Appropriations Committee rejected a proposal for federal aid in building an auditorium-civic center in Washington after Ohio's Democratic Representative Mike Kirwan, a former coal miner and railroader, objected to the proponents' argument that Washington needs a stage that can accommodate ballet. Said Kirwan: "You have to chloroform the people to get 500 to look at a ballet. Don't let anybody kid you on that score. It takes a lot of good courage to sit and watch somebody go into a toe dance. I am like Oliver Wendell Holmes. He said, 'Give...
...their fingertips. Sometimes, the nation does not look quite the way the TVmen think it should. For a 30-second shot in Weekiwachee, WWW moved in and planted 26 palm trees to make Florida more readily identifiable as Florida. When the program people wanted to show a ballad-singing miner going about his work, they flew the man 200 miles to a completely different mine because it was more convenient to TV cameras...