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...well as mathematics before he can decide what a given horse can do. Matheson himself got the bug early. At twelve he rode his grandfather's horses on scrubby "bull rings" (half-mile tracks) in Idaho and Utah. After the University of Utah and stints as a miner, a newsman and a Hollywood writer, Matheson tried a comeback as a professional rider in World War II (he was a 98-lb. 4-F). At 41 he went down to Mexico to break in. "My God," said the first track manager he talked to. "If you rode in a race...
...Whoever would have thought that the-day would come when a miner would vote for a bloody intellectual like Gaitskell instead of an ex-miner like Nye?" cried a faithful follower. Same day, the engineers, third biggest union, also plumped for Gaitskell. With the solid support of Britain's four biggest unions, Gaitskell was now assured of 2,800,000 votes (v. Bevan's 853,000) and election in September...
...street that day, he met Wilson, told him of the discovery and then disappeared. A few days later, investigation revealed that the stranger was an Arizona uranium miner who had staged his performance only as a practical joke...
...grubby offices into the Tribune's modern plant. Later he repeated the same trick with other papers he took over, pepped them up with wider wire-service coverage, broadened local-news coverage for such successful small papers as the Rock Springs Rocket (circ. 5,935), Sunday Miner (5,900) and Laramie Bulletin...
...punishing heat of the rainless Australian summer, no one can escape the vague menace that lies in the coal strike. The men spend their strike pay in the saloons, their families do without, the merchants grumble. Only two men really enjoy the strike: George Morgan, a young miner spurred by idealism and an itch for leadership, and Owner Quint, who also owns just about everything else in Gerindery that pays a profit, including the paper that Mike Lambert runs...