Word: lumberman
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King of the Bombers. Since the beginning of World War II, Boeing has been undisputed king of the bomber builders. But in the 38 years since William Edward Boeing, a wealthy lumberman's son, founded the company as a hobby just outside Seattle, Boeing has also built everything from gnatlike fighters to giant flying boats, and can claim enough pioneering firsts to satisfy any planemaker...
...Winner Gene Sarazen, "are going to make us old-timers look like dubs . . . They'll set up scoring marks we never thought of." For a couple of grey and rainy days last week, Oldtimer Sarazen had the look of a prophet. Billy Joe Patton, 31, a drawling lumberman from Morganton, N.C., fired a fine 144 on the first 36 holes and came up to the halfway mark one stroke ahead of the pack. He was the first amateur ever to lead the Masters...
Ulcers & Dilbert. Judging from his drawing, Cartoonist Osborn should have a disposition like a snapping turtle. Osborn surprises people by turning out to be a buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered...
...threatening letters to prove it was the work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion. In 1926, in his church study, Norris shot and killed an unarmed Fort Worth lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife...
Gissen, who once spent several months with a friend in a Vermont lumberman's cottage, "reading hundreds of books and Baying healthy," wrote reviews for the New Republic before he went into the Army as an infantry private in 1942. Four years later he came out a captain, with Bronze and Silver Stars and five battle stars. He joined TIME'S staff in March 1946, wrote for the PRESS section, occasionally for ART and Music, then became a book reviewer early...