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...Secretary ''Cap" Krug's underlings to haggle over a new coal contract, it was apparent that John L. had a little number of his own in mind. John L. was putting the wage style accent on a reduction of hours. He was wangling to get the miners as much take-home pay for 45 hours as they now get for 54 hours. John L. was after a contract in which the miner would be paid as much for five days of work as he is now for six days...
Bishops & Orchids. By the time loyal Bill Dunnigan was through giving the little girl a big funeral, her drab birthplace, Coaltown, Pa., was jammed with bishops, Hollywood producers, newspapermen, sobbing atheists, tender rabbis. Orchids poured in from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...
Elizabeth had come from London to give royal blessings to Eisteddfod-and to deliver a thinly veiled message from Britain's coal-hungry Ministry of Mines. Graciously she paid tribute to the Welsh miner, but gently, plainly prodded him: "His name is . . . a symbol of tenacity and achievement. Never before have so many looked to him for those qualities as today...
...Theater Wing had lined up a topflight faculty: Producers Oscar Hammerstein and Brock Pemberton, Director Margaret Webster, Choreographers Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins, Designer Donald Oenslager, Theatrical Pressagent Richard Maney, CBS's Worthington Miner, some 100 other theater and radio names. Most of them would take part in the most popular course: the theater symposium, a big bull session designed to brief students on developments in their business during the last four years...
Like the dirty, coal-blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...