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...stumped out to the car that would take his household to the polls at Nigel, a dusty gold-mining town 25 miles southeast of Johannesburg; as he reached the car there was a roar, and his house blew to smithereens. Grandma Elizabeth Stoltz and a 32-year-old gold miner named Lukas van der Merwe lay dead in the wreckage; the Stoltzes' son Pieter had a leg blown...
Died. Allan Shaw Haywood, 64, who rose from pitboy at 13 to be executive vice president and chief organizer of the C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November...
...Washington reporter was interested in how John L. Lewis celebrated his 73rd birthday, but Old Miner Lewis was not interested in talking. He took the morning off (a fairly unusual occurrence), showed up in the office during the afternoon to clean up his desk, and at day's end clapped on his hat and departed, keeping his own counsel...
Madeleine was born in 1906 in the shad ow of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur. The cards were pretty well stacked against her. Father was an ex-coal miner from the provinces who had come to Paris full of self-assurance and wound up as an ill-paid laborer. Mother was a seamstress, a slim country redhead with a profound conviction that life would not hold much...
...From Anheuser-Busch's Prohibition-era near beer of the same name. Clarence's father, a clay miner in Hammondsville, Ohio, drank so much that he was known as "Big Bevo " "Little Bevo" grew so fast that he soon appropriated his father's nickname...