Playbill
May, 1973
There is a Gentleman living in an Appalachian cottage that belies his wealth, in a town that he used to own, who will celebrate his birthday this month. The only thing notable about that is that it will be the 90th for Major William Purviance Tams, Jr., a pioneer of the coal-mining industry who is profiled by Laurence Leamer in Twilight for a Baron. Leamer, a free-lance writer from New York---'''free-lance' is usually another word for unemployed,'' he says---got into mining when he and his wife...
