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Iron Man (Universal-International) seems bent on proving that if a man has a bad enough temper, he can become heavyweight champion of the world. Jeff Chandler, a coal miner whose only real ambitions are to marry Evelyn Keyes and own a radio store, has a nasty habit of going efficiently berserk when anyone mocks him. Egged on by his sweetheart and ne'er-do-well brother (Stephen McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers...
...when few papers thought union news worth reporting, Stark got the job of covering it fulltime. Those were the years of what Stark, borrowing a coal miner's term, calls his "dead work," i.e., unpaid time spent blasting, cleaning out debris, etc. He spent the time getting to know everybody in the union movement, learning the problems of labor & capital inside out. In 1933, when unions began their great upsurge under the New Deal and unionists and their friends became Washington powers, all his "dead work" paid off. The Times sent him to the capital on a "temporary" three...
Straight Down. By last week preparations were completed. Discoverer Lépineux had the traditional right to make the first descent. He buckled on his parachute harness, put a steel helmet over his woolen cap, adjusted his miner's head lamp and his altimeter, hooked his harness to the cable of the windlass and, after a quick handshake all around, stepped off into the void...
...were still coming when he began an at-home vacation on July 8, dampened his "already ghastly" golf game. By Friday the 13th the Kansas River (called "the Kaw" by Clark and other natives) had broken all records, roared over levees into two city districts. Assistant City Editor Paul Miner woke Clark at 6 o'clock that morning, asked him to "get the hell down to the office as fast as possible." An hour later, Clark was back at work on the flood story...
Like Mushrooms. Ernst Wollweber and the German Communist movement grew up together. The son of a Silesian miner who was killed in World War I, he went to work as a stevedore in his teens. He joined the German Communist Party on the day it was formed, 32 years ago. In the dank darkness of the Communist underground, Wollweber's peculiar talents sprouted like mushrooms. He was shrewd and quick-minded, capable of great courage and matchless brutality, a man capable of believing himself when he snarled, as he often did to a wavering follower: "Death is easy." During...