Word: lumberman
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...mature trees as natural nurseries to sow their airborne seeds over the cut areas. At five years the seedlings are Christmas-tree size and at 20 about the height of a two-story house, and growing about 300 to the acre. When the crop is 30 years old, the lumberman's harvest begins. With power saws the lumbermen thin out the weakest trees, use the wood for pulp and poles, leave the best trees to mature in another 50 to 70 years into huge, 150-ft. giants for the building industry...
Today, peacetime flyers are finding Cessna's puddlejumpers just as useful. One California lumberman uses a Cessna 170 monoplane to check on his surveyor teams; a Texas undertaker even uses his Cessna as a flying hearse. With his new helicopters, jets and multi-engined transports, President Dwane Wallace takes a cheery view of the future. Says he: "In our business, it's early morning and the sun is shining...
King of the Bombers. Since the beginning of World War II, Boeing has been undisputed king of the bomber builders. But in the 38 years since William Edward Boeing, a wealthy lumberman's son, founded the company as a hobby just outside Seattle, Boeing has also built everything from gnatlike fighters to giant flying boats, and can claim enough pioneering firsts to satisfy any planemaker...
...Winner Gene Sarazen, "are going to make us old-timers look like dubs . . . They'll set up scoring marks we never thought of." For a couple of grey and rainy days last week, Oldtimer Sarazen had the look of a prophet. Billy Joe Patton, 31, a drawling lumberman from Morganton, N.C., fired a fine 144 on the first 36 holes and came up to the halfway mark one stroke ahead of the pack. He was the first amateur ever to lead the Masters...
Ulcers & Dilbert. Judging from his drawing, Cartoonist Osborn should have a disposition like a snapping turtle. Osborn surprises people by turning out to be a buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered...