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...vacation job as water boy for the Chicago construction firm of Bates & Rogers. Five years later, after two years of high school and a business-school course, he went to work full-time for Bates & Rogers in Idaho, building a dam and powerhouse on the Snake River. Iron-grey already streaked his sandy hair, but he hustled so hard that other men called him "that damned...
...true, was known along the Humboldt River as a big buyer of ranches. A fellow of the same name was remembered as a big real-estate operator around Lake Tahoe. A good many people in Reno were familiar with a Biltz too-a stocky, blue-eyed fellow with iron-grey hair, a Hollywood jacket and Humphrey Bogart gestures who didn't seem to have anything better to do than hang around the Riverside Hotel. But since Biltz doesn't like his name in the paper (and seldom has to see it there), few connected all the Biltzes into...
...stocky, dedicated little artist with an iron-grey mustache and invariably dressed in traditional Bavarian leather shorts, Bickel took up wall-painting when an antique dealer gave him the job of repainting a house to make look old. In an 18th century manuscript, Bickel found a formula for fresco painting: mortar made half & half of fine sand and chalk, laid on while wet with five simple "earth" colors. Taking his style from the baroque masters (because they specialized in "free and large" art), he achieved such appealing results that he has been swamped with commissions ever since-and so have...
Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Sanctuary) has no time for literary circles. An iron-grey, taciturn man of 52, he much prefers hunting and fishing. Nonetheless, for 20 years, he has been one of the leading enthusiasms of U.S. literary-intellectual pundits. Next month, for the first time, a book by William Faulkner is a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection. A fat collection of 42 Faulkner tales written over the past quarter-century, Collected Stories will let a brand-new layer of U.S. readers judge for themselves what all the critical...
...minutes after 8 on weekday mornings, a sturdy and businesslike man with rimless spectacles and iron-grey hair strides into the School Administration Building in the heart of Denver and heads for Room 212. Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Oberholtzer usually has a cheery "good morning" for anyone he meets on the way. And if he notices that either his secretary, Miss Cordier, or his receptionist, Mrs. Hendryson, has the sniffles, he invariably stops to commiserate and give a little advice on cold remedies. But last week, affable Superintendent Oberholtzer was a trifle pressed. From all over the U.S., a thousand...