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...years later, when Ray was spending his summers working in a lumberyard in Tellico Plains, one of his co-workers was another lanky Monroe County boy named Estes Kefauver. Estes was a lumber handler, hoisting it into freight cars. Ray was a grader, checking lumber as it was piled in the cars. Says Tennessee's Senator Kefauver: "I was always kind of envious of him. He could stay in the boxcar where it was cool; I had to stay...
...What next for Ray Jenkins? He probably stands a chance of gaining more than any other participant in the hearings (but not financially: he is being paid $225 a week). At home, Republicans have already begun urging him to run for the U.S. Senate this year against his old lumber-loading pal Estes Kefauver. Jenkins can have the G.O.P. nomination for the asking...
Last week the Morganton (N.C.) lumber salesman was having a roaring good time in the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst, a match-play event where one badly bungled hole is not so costly as in medal play. In the second round, Billy Joe put out Defending Champion Bill Campbell, a U.S. Walker Cup player; later, Alex Welsh, a lawyer from Rockford, 111., upset the former U.S. and British amateur champion, Dick Chapman. Welsh and Billy Joe met in the final, scheduled for 36 holes...
...John D. Leland, 50, was named president of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., third biggest U.S. producer of lumber. A suave, silver-haired financial expert, Leland graduated from Harvard Business School in 1927, was a member of the Boston Stock Exchange until 1941, when he became assistant treasurer of the Brookline Trust Co. He joined Long-Bell in 1946 as assistant to the vice president. He replaces retiring President Julian M. White, who will remain active on the board...
Tightening up his too-late theme, Author Lewis turns the vise of his plot until poor Crane is crushed. Trouble begins with some petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than...