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...month-long run; during spells of bad weather, which delays clearing the nets, many a fisherman will work from before dawn until midnight. This year they will labor anxiously. Reason: recently OPA pegged the price of herring before the run at about 3? a pound. Fishermen snorted like Paul Bunyan's blue ox, threatened to hang up their nets. OPA relented, reclassified some of them as wholesalers entitled to 7? a pound. This week, as rumors of further changes ran through the villages fringing Lakes Superior and Michigan, fishermen kept one eye on Superior's net-ripping, boat...
Tutt v. the Law. But Ephraim Tutt's autobiography is not only entertainment. Tutt belongs with Uncle Sam, David Harum and Paul Bunyan as a symbol of what Americans think of themselves, how they would like to be. Tutt's autobiography takes the serious reader to the border of one of literature's most fascinating phenomena : the myth, and its meaning in the ethos of a nation...
This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...
...lock lay like a tremendous, zebra-striped bathtub for Paul Bunyan. (Down were the barrage balloons that usually guard it.) Up to the walk atop the 680-ton lock gates stepped 16-year-old Jan Harns, smashed a beribboned bottle of champagne over the black iron and concrete of the walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes...
Like the Confederacy's "Stonewall" Jackson and England's Cromwell, he is a devout man himself. Nightly he reads his Bible. He carries with him a copy of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...