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...flamboyant man, who hates neckties, wears baggy Western-cut pants and a battered Stetson, chews the ends of his pipes to bits. Part Spanish, English, Cherokee and Yaqui Indian, he was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Las Vegas, the son of a logger who later became a railroad engineer. Ogle took calculus in high school, used a W.C.T.U. scholarship (he is no longer an abstainer) to help finance his studies at the University of Nevada, where he majored in physics and math. In his last year, he married a girl he had met in church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten...
...From its slough of despond, TIME confesses it had Legendary Logger Paul Bunyan in mind...
...trouble with all this is that the Labour Party's Constitution is far too democratic to permit any such assertion of authority. "The Parliamentary Party," it states emphatically, "could not long remain at logger-heads with the annual party conference without disrupting the party," the implication being that unlike its Conservative counterpart, the Labour front bench may not dictate to the conference. Thus, to save his party from its first serious split, Gaitskell must convince next year's conference to accept a series of constitutional reforms...
...former Roman Catholic seminary outside Vancouver, where as "the living Christ" he performs marriages, buries the dead, and prescribes medical treatment, e.g., keep newborn babies in a dark room with a small green light. The school's teachings are imparted by three apostles, one of them a former logger, who train the young in such arts as standing on their index fingers and making valentines for "Uncle Bill" Wolsey. The archbishop himself handles a course in sex education...
Died. John ("General") Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil...