Foreign News: Poor Little Rich Man

A year ago Coalminer Edwin Midgley of South Kirkby, Yorkshire joined a football pool that netted him a tidy $44,800. With a whoop and a holler, Midgley quit the coal-digging business "forever."

Last week Edwin Midgley, still in comfortable financial circumstances, drove up to the mine gate in his limousine and asked for his old job. Why? Said Miner Midgley: "I got bored."

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