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...lumberman and storekeeper in tiny Buctouche, N.B. (pop. 1,000), K. C. Irving early demonstrated the Midas touch. At five he sold the produce of his backyard garden (2? per cucumber); at ten he marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As a young man he sold Model Ts, and Fords led him logically to gas pumps. He started Irving Oil by installing a 10,000-gal. gasoline tank in his home town. From there, oil guided him into bus lines, tankers and refining...
Useful Bark. Weyerhaeuser's evergreen empire began in 1900 when Immigrant Lumberman Frederick Weyerhaeuser bought 900,000 acres of forest from his St. Paul neighbor. Northern Pacific Railroad Builder James J. Hill; he paid $5,400,000 for property today valued at $1,750,000,000. In the early days, lumber mills customarily burned off waste or dumped it in nearby rivers, polluting them. Weyerhaeuser, spurred by the New Deal's emphasis on conservation, looked for ways to use waste. Over the years, it found a process to bleach fir pulp white to make it suitable for better...
Ralph Smith DeLoach, 51, who founded and heads Modern Homes, is a onetime lumberman with a fierce desire to dethrone Walter as king of the shell home business. A tough-talking and frugal Georgian, DeLoach started in 1956, now has 63 offices in 13 states. By carefully watching his costs (on one home he even weighed the nails), he has made his company perhaps the industry's most profitable, came out of 1962 with $22.5 million in sales and $1,700,000 in earnings...
...quite six months later, Durie married Thomas H. Shevlin, son of a famed Yale football end (1902-05) and wealthy Minneapolis lumberman, Thomas Leonard Shevlin. The marriage, at Fort Lee, N.J., on July n, 1947, was Shevlin's second. His first wife, Lorraine, was the daughter of Pasadena Socialite Princess Laura Orsini; she had first been married to Robert McAdoo, son of President Wilson's Treasury Secretary. She is now married to Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, and is a good friend of President and Mrs. Kennedy's. In divorcing Shevlin, Lorraine was ultimately...
Dick Garibaldi (3-0) will be on the hill for the Crimson. Backing him up will be the same old reliable crew, including: Phil Bernstein, who won the last game with a clutch single; Gavin Gilmor, who has hit homers in the just three contests; league-leading lumberman Mike Drummey; fielding expert Dave Morse; catcher Dick Diehl, who wins ball games with his bat and his chatter; hustling Curly Combs, who knocked in six runs to crush Princeton; currently red-hot Terry Bartolet; and right field master Bobby St. George...