Word: minerality
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...write, no tongue can tell, no vocabulary of language is large enough to express the many benefits that will come to the American coal miner and his family through the establishment of the Welfare and Retirement Fund...
...Yorkshire miner's son who went into the pits at 14, Frank Cousins switched to truck driving when depression made mine jobs scarce. Humping meat and machinery long distances at low pay, he caught the eye of Ernie Bevin just before World War II, and became a T.W.U. organizer along the northern roads. Brought to London in 1944, he scorned the desk, never lost a chance to get out among the men, in truckers' cafes and pubs, on docks and in warehouses...
...Miner learned to braille last year, spent some 200 hours practicing before she began transcribing. She chose TIME to copy because she likes it, and thought blind readers would appreciate its flavor and news coverage. This week's cover story on Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker will be her 23rd. She began copying with the Martin Luther King story (Feb. 18), missed the Birdie Tebbetts cover (July 8) because she and her husband (who is president of a Chicago paper company) were on vacation. Many of her blind readers are avid baseball fans, and she plans...
...gratitude that Mrs. Miner's blind readers have for her weekly press run has been well expressed by Reader Kinney. "You can readily understand how much color and background TIME cover stories add to the news bulletins that blind people receive by radio," he says. "Imagine, then, what worlds of art, thought and politics these wide-ranging articles open up to those of us who are both blind and deaf...
...becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy of collision between aborigine and invader, and sometimes the more complicated tragedy of their collusion. Such a story is Lost Sister, a tale of a captured white child who became a squaw and sacrificed her life to save her half-Indian son from...