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...last week. "The organization was my own creation. . . ." It was the story of Long-Bell Lumber Co. that Chairman Robert Alexander Long, now 81 was telling. He was fighting a receivership long desired by certain bondholders (TIME, Feb. I). One day in 1918, faced with exhaustion of their southern pine reserves, Chairman Long had gathered his executives about him to ponder liquidation or continuance of the lumber business. Willingly risking his personal fortune, he joined in their vote to continue, promptly dispatched men into the Northwest to buy great tracts of Douglas fir. For the new venture they bought extensively...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...
...final of the 400-metre run, Olympic equivalent of the quarter-mile, was the third race between Benjamin Bangs Eastman of Stanford, who made world's records for the quarter-mile and half-mile early this spring, and Bill Carr of Pine Bluff, Ark. and Pennsylvania University who had beaten Eastman in the Intercollegiates and again in the Olympic trials. This most intense personal rivalry of the entire Games was settled fairly and beyond doubt. At the staggered starting line, Eastman had No. 2 lane, a better position than Carr in No. 4. For the first time in an important...
...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
...Hays code. The daughter (Margaret Perry) of a respectable household attaches the affections of a married man. Instead of disowning her, her father (Lewis Stone) tries to be helpful. The girl's brother (Robert Young) goes to Paris to study art, leaving his mother (Laura Hope Crews) to pine and die. There are no penalties herein attached to inconsiderateness and immorality. The girl weds her lover tardily divorced-and bears him twins. Her brother, failing as a painter, becomes a contented wallpaper designer...