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...skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them had drifted in from points north and north-west where log driving is still an annual affair. They had what the Scandinavians call "snus" (pinches of snuff) in their lower lips, steel on their feet and names like "The Beaver," "Big. Ben" and "Dirty Dan" to awe less colorful citizens...
...intimate that the play will be grotesque as well as giantesque. Outstanding among the cast will be Alice Plimpton, Dorothy Wright, Martha Bird and Joan Jacoby of Vincent Club and Junior League affiliations; Peggy Eastell, Priscilla Freeman, and Barbara Logan from Erskine; Desiree Rogers, newly debbed, Jean Halliday from Beaver Country Day, Peggy Carter and Leslie Blake...
...fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered because Victor Moore, as Mr. Beaver, is able to prove that no man can get upstairs, get undressed, take a shower, and get into his pajamas, all in six minutes and a half. In spite of the paucity of the plot, Helen Broderick as Mrs. Dean, the motivating force of the jury, and Victor Moore make...
Main sources of the 3,500,000 tons of newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough...
...more than half a century Reformer Howard has battled drink. At 13 he asked Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania, his native state, if something could not be done about it, was appointed a page in the Legislature for his pains. Clinton Howard became a picture-frame salesman, acquired a modest fortune, moved to Rochester, X. Y., whence for a generation he has periodically emerged to go on lecture tours...