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Family & Early Years: Born at Cheboygan, Mich, of Scottish-English ancestry. His father, Watts S. Humphrey, was a lawyer. After taking engineering courses along the way, George graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1912, became the second Humphrey in his father's firm (Humphrey, Grant & Humphrey) in Saginaw. In 1913, he married Pamela Stark, his school-day sweetheart. They have two daughters and a son (another son died), and eight grandchildren...
...Brave Don't Cry (Group Three; Mayer-Kingsley) is a fairly maudlin title for a lean, unsparing movie about a Scottish mine disaster. Produced by oldtime Documentary-Maker John Grierson, the picture is based on a real-life disaster in the Knockshinnock Castle Colliery in 1950. It tells of a mine cave-in and the rescue of 118 miners trapped for two days in West No. 4 section between the firedamp and a flooded pit shaft...
...false sentiment. It is mostly a movie of waiting and of silences at the pithead and in the pit as the rescuers work their way toward the trapped men. "There's nothing to do but wait," says one miner's wife stoically. Except for an occasional Scottish song, the picture has no musical score-only the constant sounds of ticking clocks, dripping water and heavy breathing...
Much of the toughness was picked up from his Scottish immigrant father, James Clydesdale King, who was as dour and granitic as the foggy vale for which he was named. He drove hard bargains with his son, and forced him to keep them. Ever since, Ernest King has driven hard bargains and resolutely kept his promises. Because he made it a point of honor to be fair to subordinates, Sundowner King cannot understand why they seldom warmed to him. Neither can he understand why a taut ship is not automatically a happy ship...
Died. Philip Murray, 66, Scottish-born coal miner who went to the pits when he was ten, in 1936 became chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and in 1940 president of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in a San Francisco hotel room (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...