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...reader of Lithopinion need feel insulted. Articles deal with overspecialization in today's science, the joys and hazards of retirement, the bad side of the "good old days" in the early-20th century U.S. Why, one contributor asks, are workingmen rarely portrayed in any television dramas? "The deep thinkers who arrange things on the home screen," he wrote, "have somehow made the whole paycheck populace disappear. Automation at its deadliest couldn't possibly be more thorough...
Stamper's strength is as the strength of one, and naturally none of the self-divided souls around him can tolerate so much indivisible virtue. The towns people are feuding with him because he won't join a logging strike (this may be the only novel about workingmen in which the strikers are villains), and his bookish young half brother, Lee, is trying to break...
Despite such attitudes, Hoiles manages to turn a hefty profit; estimates of his wealth run as high as $35 million. Though he bleeds editorially for workingmen whose very bread "is snatched from their mouths by the tax collectors." his employees make so little themselves that they scarcely have to worry about taxes. He pays some printers $58 for a 40-hour week (v. $149 for 35 hours in Manhattan), rarely tops $100 for seasoned editors. With monopolies in all but two of his eleven towns, he has most advertisers over a barrel...
...Knute Rockne. In 1913 obscure little Notre Dame played Army in Yankee Stadium as a filler on West Point's football schedule. Captain Rockne, at left end, and Quarterback Gus Dorais passed Army to death-35 to 13. The stunning upset made Notre Dame famous. From nuns to workingmen, Catholics all over the country began praying on Saturday mornings for Notre Dame victories...
...mused last week: "I speak Spanish, and of course we have a large Spanish population. I have a real feeling for the Jewish people. I have always championed Negroes. I've heard from a lot of these people, from thousands of people up and down the state-merchants, workingmen. professional men, teachers, women and men in every walk of life. They say they want me to run for Governor...