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...Forgotten Man's friend when Franklin Roosevelt wore short pants. Like John Llewellyn Lewis, he is a Welsh miner's son. He dug coal, aged 9, in the pits of Pennsylvania. A Sunday school teacher taught him to read. A parson and a lawyer helped him get learning and law, at night. He settled and practiced in Cumberland, a western Maryland mining town. He reached Congress...
...Lewis is confronted by the fact that President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, C.I.O.'s best-heeled union, has threatened to walk out unless his attempts to conciliate C.I.O. and A.F.of L. succeed. All this was calculated to put grey streaks in Miner Lewis' big black thatch and to create jubilation in the heart of his onetime colleague, Miner William Green...
...Brain Truster, now chairman of New York's City Planning Commission; by Florence Arnold Tugwell; in Yerington, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty. Meanwhile, the Tugwells' older daughter, Tanis, 21, denied she was engaged to 22-year-old Sevier ("Stub"') Whatley, son of a one-time Tennessee coal miner, who took out a license to marry...
...Port Orford all stirred up last week was a 70-year-old Oregon miner named Robert Harrison. Miner Harrison asserts that he found the meteorite as a boy of 14, when he was staking out a nickel claim in the mountains with his father. Oldster Harrison also declares that he came upon the meteorite again in 1900, that he still remembers exactly where it is. Slowed up two years ago by an injury. Miner Harrison was feeling spry enough last week to figure on going after the lost meteorite...
...THINGS ARE-Albert Maltz -International ($2}. Violent stories of the "proletarian" ilk. Best: Man on the Road, about a hitchhiking miner who has caught silicosis in Gauley Bridge. W. Va. and cannot decide whom to blame...