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...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
Then, last April, Alberta's great oil bonanza dumped a derrick on Bill Mulligan's 320 acres smack behind the tumbledown Mulligan shack. Unlike 99% of Alberta's farmers, Paw Mulligan held mineral rights to his land.* By last week his windfall had reached $40,000 or $50,000-he hadn't bothered to figure it out exactly. Besides, most of it had already been spent on a whale of a good time...
Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...
Another weak spot for Olson's team is the weights. Unlike the case of the varsity, the freshman weight-throwers have contributed little to the team scoring. Yale's Sam Mulligan won the javelin event at Princeton with a toss of over 174 feet. At Dartmouth, Harvard's Lincoln Ferris won under...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, and the former Sloan Simpson, 33, were honeymooning last week, advanced one theory as to why the Irish-born onetime city cop fell in love with the Texas-born onetime model: "She not only is a charming girl, but she makes a wonderful, mulligan stew...