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Back in the early 1930s, at about the time that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was trying to pull itself out of bankruptcy, a 21 -year-old coal miner's son named Daniel Jeremiah Haughton got his degree in accounting from the University of Alabama and headed for California...
...wear old clothes, so you've scrounged around for the worst sweatshirt and dungarees you could find. Cavers usually prefer coveralls, since any tight place can pull your sweatshirt up over your head, and then your chest gets painted with mud. To protect your head you wear a miner's hard hat with a carbide light. In your pockets are stuffed a bottle of water, a spare bottle of carbide, a flashlight, matches, and a candle...
Sobbing Rescuer. In minutes, most of the school and 17 surrounding homes were buried deep under the silent, black slime. From nearby pits, miners rushed to the scene and tore at the debris with their hands, picks and shovels. Mothers struggled up to their waists in the mud and sludge, calling out for their children. Mrs. Pauline Evans, a 27-year-old housewife, climbed through a classroom window with a nurse and found a dozen children screaming in panic. "In another classroom, we could hear the voice of a little girl," she said. "But we could...
Roughhewn, Pennsylvania-born Michael Joseph Kirwan dropped out of school after the third grade and followed his coal miner father into the pits. Later, he worked on oil gushers, farms and railroads...
...Boar's-Head Tavern, Mistress Quickly (Jan Miner), in an orange and yellow-green costume, sports an appropriately fiery head of red hair, but is otherwise forgettable. The tart-tongued tart Doll Tearsheet (Alix Elias), dark-haired and rouge-cheeked, has only her low neckline to recommend her; the monotonous and whining voice with which she delivers all her lines is painful beyond belief...