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Fine was born (1893) in such a town, an anthracite "mine patch" near Nanticoke. His father worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Co., first running the stationary engine in the shaft, then working on a company-owned farm. When little John was in grade school, he helped at farm chores and plowing. But he found that a man could still make his way out of the dark hills if he wanted to. After he graduated from high school, Fine studied law, paying his way by a job delivering and picking up laundry...
...1920s, Fine became friendly with a Philadelphia lawyer by the name of Francis Shunk Brown. Brown wanted some day to run for governor, and discussed his plans with Fine. The boy from the mine patch was thrilled to be the confidant of so big a man. "I felt highly honored to be in the presence of Francis Shunk Brown," says Fine. "I looked up to him with the most profound respect and admiration." But Fine told him that if ever Gifford Pinchot, to whom he owed his judgeship, should decide to run for governor again, he would have to support...
...soon as the ad appeared in The New Yorker last fall, all eyes were green in Manhattan's ad alley. "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt" depicted a white-shirted, debonair-looking fellow who was given a peculiar air of distinction by a black patch over his right eye. The ad was the inspiration of British-born David Ogilvy, 41, vice president of Manhattan's Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc. He got the idea from pictures of ex-Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who has worn a patch ever since he lost the sight of one eye in a fishing...
...suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party." The winning program is still "the New Deal and the Fair Deal," and it includes, he said (to the distress of Democratic National Chairman Frank McKinney, who was trying in Chicago to patch up a compromise with the Southerners), a firm stand on civil rights. "I am sure that the liberal faith is the political faith of the great majority of Americans . . . and that is why, this time, as in 1948, we will...
Nature's vagaries were not so simply faced in Australia. Monsoon, rains sweeping in from the Indian Ocean across the northern hump of Australia have created a rich patch of cattle-raising country about the size of Texas. But in the recent monsoon season (November to March), for the first time in living memory, the rains did not come. Not only the northern pasture land, but the whole top half of Australia began to dry up. Within six months there was hardly a blade of grass in an area the size of Western Europe...