Word: lumberjack
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Bags Packed. Hollywood is now eager to adopt Actress Kelly, white gloves and all, and is trying hard, with the air of an ill-at-ease lumberjack worrying whether he is using the right spoon. But Grace shows no interest in the Hollywood way of life, or even in having the customary swimming pool ("I don't swim that much"). Thus far, she has lived with a sister or a girl friend in a furnished, two-room North Hollywood apartment, acting as" if she considered herself on location, with her bags packed ready to go back to New York...
...went well with the factory job and art school for two years. Then an elder brother, who had been working as a lumberjack in Oregon, paid Guy a visit and repeated his favorite philosophy: "If you don't like your job, for heaven's sake quit it since you only live once." Result: Guy took off for a year's work with his brother in lum ber camps along the Columbia River. Woods man Rowe returned to Detroit to finish art school, marry a fellow student, and make a name for himself in the New York community...
Business Career: Started as a lumberjack with the Black River Lumber Co. in south Vermont, advanced to logging foreman, moved up to company treasurer in 1921. As treasurer, he trimmed the budget so effectively that he was grabbed off by the parent company, the Parker-Young Co. of Lincoln. N.H.; rose to be general manager...
...Harvard Gentlemen who defeated Davidson (35-26) Saturday were anything but that. . . . Despite all you hear about the ultra-ultra atmosphere of the Ivy League circuit, those Crimson characters were the meanest, roughest, most ruthless athletes you could locate outside a lumberjack's free-for-all. . . . The Southern Conference's most scandalous operators of the Flying Fist & the Uplifted Knee are creampuffs compared to Harvard. Charlotee News...
...turned out to be an Idaho native who made most of his money in Los Angeles oil stocks, moved in 1935 to Reno, where he lives parsimoniously except for frequent flings at roulette. He does his own shopping with a market basket, dresses in faded blue jeans and a lumberjack shirt...