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...although he looks 45, he is actually 20 years older. Forty-some years as an organizer and union leader brought him great prestige but little cash, and Ed McGrady felt that he owed it to his family to do better financially than the $9,000 he gets as second-string to Madam Perkins' fiddle. Last spring, he was reported to have declined a $50,000-a-year job with Distilled Spirits Institute partly because he felt that his job would not let him leave and partly because he felt that Madam Secretary Perkins might be going to resign...
Between the mainland of North Carolina and a string of shifting sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White...
...luxury of a bad temper, indulged in regularly by conductors of great orchestras in. the winter, is something which most second-string, summertime maestros cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
Courtroom scenes are a dramatic standby, but for bleak, malevolent drama, the screen has never achieved a better one than the trial of Robert Hale. It ends, when a string of cowardly witnesses have given their lying testimony, with Attorney Griffin's masterly peroration which the jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train...
...difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens up a whole unspoiled section to motorists...