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...Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were busy last week replacing great, grim Prussian barrack rooms with small, snug squad rooms equipped with easy chairs, tables, cheerful curtains, hardwood floors and such lavish tiled lavatories as no other European army can boast...
Founded half a century ago in Racine, Wis. by Samuel Curtis Johnson, who developed wax as a sideline for his hardwood floor business, S. C. Johnson & Son now accounts for more than one-half the U. S. wax business. Prosperous, family-owned, famed for its model employe benefit plans, the company is now headed by the founder's grandson, Herbert Jr., no salesman but a trained chemist who likes technical problems, supervision of new products. Every year he flies in his own plane to Canadian wilds for three months of hunting & fishing...
...across the Pacific from San Francisco to Canton. Some 5,000 miles west of San Francisco, Wake consists of three low coral atolls, the largest but four miles long, surrounded by a dangerous reef. There is no drinking water, but, unlike barren Midway Island, the verdure of umbrella and hardwood trees is jungle-thick. Everywhere are coral boulders, hermit crabs, squawking birds. Nowhere is there a harbor for ships...
...name is basketball. For the second year in a row, as soon as the spring football practice sessions have ended, End Coach Wes Fesler has rapidly metamorphosed into Cage Coach Fesler, and the moleskins and dirt of the Briggs Cage have been exchanged for the shorts and the hardwood floor of the New Indoor Athletic Building...
...after work the President took the opportunity of inspecting for the first time a gift sent him eight months ago. It was a carved table 10½ ft. in diameter from Filipino Emilio Aguinaldo. Its highly polished top was made of a single piece of hardwood, Philippine red narra. Around its rim were twelve drawers, for the President, Vice President and each member of the Cabinet. Unfortunately, in rebuilding the White House offices the doorway of the Cabinet room was not made large enough to admit the table. Last week with difficulty it was maneuvered into the public lobby...