Word: lumberman
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Doing road work (see cut) with his new-bought baseball club, the perennial last-place Phillies, was apple-shaped Owner William D. Cox, 33-year-old Manhattan lumberman, onetime catcher at New York University. He looked like a good prospect for his own talent-shy team...
With a little gun that had "been in the family for years" ex-Cinemactress Madge Bellamy, 39, curly-haired, wide-eyed star of the silents (Ankles Preferred, Silk Legs, Summer Bachelors), fired three shots at 53-year-old Lumberman A. Stanwood Murphy as he emerged from San Francisco's swank Pacific Union Club. Murphy high-tailed it for cover, untouched, and Madge gave up quietly. To police, who charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, she explained that she had wanted to scare him, that he had ditched her after his divorce and married somebody else. Released under...
...last week-that the only thing wrong with lumber is that the big mills and loggers are not working at capacity for lack of manpower and machines. Why help the little fellow when the big, efficient producer was not working full time? "Good God," he reportedly cried to one lumberman recently, "lumber will be coming out of our ears after...
...American Lumberman Chicago...
...Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...