Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobby [my son] & I, on a two-year walking tour of the Americas, went through that mine two weeks ago, by the grace of a friendly, tipsy miner...
Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...
...thinking of C. I. Oligarch Lewis as a potential candidate; and few "influences" in U. S. political history have seemed so uninfluential. Of 40 Congressional candidates he blasted at in 1938, 39 were promptly elected; in Pennsylvania his support was politically fatal. Yet John Llewellyn Lewis, 60, shag mane, miner's pallor, pompous oratory and all, might be a forceful, effective, and sur prisingly conservative President...
Joker in it, to St. Louis newsmen, was that Ed Sullivan's column does not appear in the Star-Times, but in the Post-Dispatch. Another joker was that Columnist Sullivan got his names mixed: "Newspaper Veteran Larner" turned out to be news editor, William R. Miner...
Said Editor Miner with a straight face: "He [Sullivan] said he had only a few minutes-it was nice he could spend them in our office." Said the Post-Dispatch, preoccupied with weightier matters (see p. 56 : nothing...