Word: redwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering...
Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...
...medicine instead of reprinted classics. Printed all over the world, Limited Editions books include such native volumes as The Psalms of David, being printed in Palestine, Oedipus Rex, being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
William R. Byler '39, of Toledo, Ohio; John B. Fisher '41, of Los Angeles, California;Richard C. W. Fisher '41, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island; William C. Flinn '39, of Redwood Falls, Minnesota; Sanford L. Gray '41, of Cleveland, Ohio; John F. Grindle, Jr. '39, of Washington; Clarence Hagen '39, of Marysville, Washington; George B. Handelman '41, of Pittsburgh; Louis Bartz '40, of Omaha, Nebraska...
...immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived through them some of the heroic sweep and thunder of the West's lore of legendary foresters. Good shot: a falling redwood seen through a stationary camera sighting along the trunk of the tree as it levels with the lens...