Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, clear cry of "Timberrrr!" would soon ring out no more in the stillness of the forest-it would be drowned by the din of a mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan was more legendary than ever...
...portrait of an average man in war. He is ably supported by hundreds of sharp details of war, family living, nature, and what female readers like to designate as typically "Russian" scenes: a madly loyal Cossack hanging on to a disabled cannon "like a dangerous pig tied to a log"; Red troops who, with a blaring phonograph on a sledge, gallop round & round the streets of a village; some gruesome close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching...
...championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending his crown. He won the first fall in 9 min., 2 sec., but lost the second in 3:10. On the "toothpick," with the count tied, the hardy old Tiger had to use every trick...
Birling is far harder than rolling off a log. It is the art of staying on while others tumble. In birling, two sure-footed log-rollers, standing on a peeled log floating in the water, try to spin it so as to roll each other off. With eyes glued to the other fellow's calked shoes, they "cuff it" (roll the log), "snub it" (stop dead and reverse the rolling). First they roll a log 18 inches in diameter, then a 17-incher, finally a 16-incher ("the toothpick"). Two falls out of three wins a match...
Once, 40 years ago, two log cuffers named Tom Oliver and Jim Stewart birled for two days (six hours the first day, five the next) before one got a ducking. Nowadays, 15 minutes is a long time to keep dry. A cagey, cat-quick birler is called a Bangor Tiger, because of the legendary feats of Bangor-driving Maine loggers over 100 years...