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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Lives Down Under | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...Governor of Guam: Ford Q. (for Quint) Elvidge, 60, Seattle lawyer. When Interior Secretary Douglas McKay asked him whether he would accept the governorship, Elvidge protested that he was not ready to "retire to a South Sea island and sit under a palm tree"; he agreed to take the job only after McKay assured him that it was "a tough assignment." What makes it tough is that the Navy and the civilian administrators are waging a cold war to decide who is going to run the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENTS: Old & New Faces | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Type of Rooms Available: 11 doubles, 24 triples, 4 quads, 1 quint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell Now Largest Units, Have Most Freshman Vacancies | 3/25/1953 | See Source »

Type of Rooms Available: 7 singles, 14 doubles, 13 triples, 9 quads, 1 quint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell Now Largest Units, Have Most Freshman Vacancies | 3/25/1953 | See Source »

Vacancies for freshmen: 134 with 11 doubles, 27 triples, five quads, two openings in a quint and nine vacancies in partially-filled suites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Concentrates on All-Round Men While Emphasizing Need for House Spirit | 3/25/1952 | See Source »

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