Word: loggers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Nearly everybody in northern Minnesota knows rawboned, six-foot Frank Broker. For more than 25 years he was a logger, one of the best in that logging country. Now he is a jobber, driving through the timberlands in his Chevrolet to buy up small lots of lumber and sell them to the mills. With his good sense, his jet-black Indian hair and his love of talk, he is also a familiar figure in the lobby of the Endion Hotel at Cass Lake, where red and white men of affairs assemble regularly to settle matters of moment. As a past...
...anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers, pottery workers get on with their jobs while the visitors watch...