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Grace & Mercy. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben, Saxony, in 1483. His father was a tightfisted miner who had fought his way up to foundry owner. Old Hans sent his son to read law at the University of Erfurt, but Martin's sensitive mind became preoccupied with fear for his soul. A nameless, periodic and overwhelming despair seized him. It had been acute for about six months when the lightning struck...
People get "this lord & lady business" all mixed up, complained Baron Lawson of Beamish, 68, who was a coal miner at twelve and labor M.P. for 30 years before he was raised to the peerage last February. "People come along to me and say, 'Well, you see, my lord'; then they get to, 'It's this way, Mr. Lawson'; then it's, 'Tell me, John'; and in the end it's, 'See here, Jack...
...Nothing Could Be Worse." On the battlefield of Suchow (TIME, Nov. 29, 1948), Reporter Doyle watched the Nationalist soldiers' dispirited attempt to beat back the Communists, and in besieged North China he talked to a group of miners whose conversation reflected the spirit of Nationalist China after a decade of war. Doyle, who could speak their own language, asked them if they would flee if the Communists came. "Flee?" asked one miner bitterly. "Flee where? To America?" Said another: "Nothing could be much worse than our life...
Argued the U.M.W.'s frog-voiced little Lawyer Welly Hopkins: it was not unreasonable at all. Each miner, sore at the operators' refusal to come to terms with Lewis, had simply laid down his tools and refused to work. As for complying with Judge Keech's order, the U.M.W. was also "disappointed" when the men didn't do as Lewis had twice told them and go back to work...
...lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire...