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...narrated by the Weavers to a homely little melody, there was a logger who could eat baled hay if someone sprinkled it with whisky. One night when it froze clean through to China, he started off home without his mackinaw. At 100 below, he just buttoned his vest. But at 1,000 below, he froze solid. His sweetheart finally got tired of waiting for him, and went looking for another man who stirred his coffee with his thumb...
...rage of the Northwest, The Frozen Logger, was written by a onetime mule skinner, hobo poet and bull cook named Jim Stevens, one of the first men to set the tall tales of Paul Bunyan down on paper (1925). He wrote the lyrics in 1928, borrowed the melody of an old ballad to go with them. He finally got it published last year, and the folk-singing Weavers picked it up and boosted it into popularity. So much popularity, says Stevens, 59, that "I hear some of the boys in the woods are beginning to use their thumbs...
...factory whistles; no pretty girls were kissed on the streets. At best, there was a soiled feeling of an ordeal ended by mutual exhaustion. Nobody talked of a V-K day. Universally, there was recognition that the respite was only temporary. "What good is it?" demanded a Tacoma logger. "They'll be at it again somewhere, just you wait...
...Also called hot flush. Dr. Lincoln notes that the best description of this symptom was given to her by an ex-logger, a 200-lb. man of 65: "Suddenly a wave of heat sweeps up from the soles of my feet to the crown of my head. I get kind of faint and I can't think straght. It only lasts a few seconds." Injections of male sex hormones, Author Lincoln reports, gave him "dramatic relief...
Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...