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Neatly dressed in gabardine slacks and lightweight lumber jacket, a battered copy of Reader's Digest clutched in his hands, Prisoner Luis Taruc stood before the bar of justice in Manila last week. The man who had led the bloody, Communist Huk rebellion for eight years heard his sentence: twelve years in jail, a $10,000 fine. Taruc beamed, relatives happily pounded his back, bussed his cheeks. Then, with colossal effrontery, the rebel leader announced: "I can take anything for the sake of the peace of our country...
...couldn't resist mailing you a picture of my do-it-yourself husband's project [see cut]. A nine-room ranchstyle house he has designed and built in the last seven years, using only weekend and holiday hours. Built of old used lumber, from railroad boxcars, which had to be cleaned and stripped of nails. Included in the construction are two fireplaces and one chimney for inside barbecue which required around 3,000 bricks . . . The house has 57 windows . . . one 15-ft.-by-20-ft. basement for furnace and shower, and one 12-ft.-by-12-ft. storm...
Montgomery Ward's terrible-tempered Chairman Sewell L. Avery has had plenty of practice severing high-level employees from his payroll, including 32 vice presidents since 1931 (TIME, May 6, 1940 et seq.). Last week it was Sewell A very that was axed-as president of Cadillac-Soo Lumber Co., of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Cadillac-Soo Lumber was formed in 1923 out of three small companies, one owned by Avery and his brother. In 1946 Avery became president of the closely held corporation (with annual sales of about...
Shoals gets $500 a month to play first base and manage the team. Reyes makes $275 at third. Many a Kingsport fan comes out to the ball game just to see Reyes lumber up to the plate, shift his cud of tobacco, wag his massive hindquarters at the crowd and growl at the catcher. The crowd likes the volatile Cubans, too; sometimes one of them steals a base, not because the situation warrants it, but simply because he is in the mood...
...late, great Yachtbuilder Henry B. Nevins was never a man to cut corners. His City Island yard in New York City seasoned its own lumber, designed and machined its own fittings, fastened its spars together with glue made of sour cream, sometimes trimmed them to the correct balance by weighing shavings. By such attention to detail, Perfectionist Henry Nevins built more cup-winning yachts than anyone else...