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...whole Northwest claims Brobdingnagian Lumberjack Paul Bunyan, mightiest of loggers, and his blue ox Babe. Together they dug Puget Sound in less than three weeks, using a glacier as a scoop. Paul Bunyan invented the double-bladed ax so that he could fell a tree on every backswing. His grindstone, which he made himself, "was so large that every time it made a single revolution it was pay day." His achievements and appetites were in proportion...
...TIME, Aug. 4), is the first in America to give full credit to that wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years old, yet at 44 and 45 he had smashed to smithereens...
...front cover) Legend tells that when great, good, wise Paul Bunyan was inventing and perfecting the logging industry in Real America, he thought up most of his profound ideas and amazing devices all by himself. But now and then there would be something that stumped him, and besides, keeping the great 100,000-page ledgers of his business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew...
Paper. If the army of woodsmen led by mighty Paul Bunyan invaded Canada to chop down 80,000,000 cords of pulpwood, they would take so long that by the time the wood was pressed into pulp and paper new forests would have sprung up. For this reason three Canadian pulp and paper companies which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money...
Because Paul Bunyan knows no law, it was not surprising that the ceremonies should have been interrupted by one Gunnar Scheftstrom, ex-convict, who held up a Longview merchant, shot him, fled to the forest. Human, he could not escape with Bunyanesque speed. A posse smoked him out in full view of an audience...