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...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...
Gunman Bondurant had forced a Memphis lumberman named Thomas L. Madden to drive him to Middleton, had taken Madden into the bank as a hostage, and was doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
...profits pouring in from its huge timber stands. If the $6,375,000 in cash and Government bonds in the company till was paid out in dividends to the Johnson family, which controlled the company, most would go for income taxes. The Johnsons talked their problem over with another lumberman, 48-year-old Owen Cheatham, president of the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. Cheatham had worries also...
Things As Usual. These were past errors; the error being made today was the ready-in-'53, no fuss-no strain philosophy. This failure of leadership ran higher than the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growled a Seattle lumberman: "As long as Harry does things as usual, then everybody else will do things as usual. Harry said there is no war on, so who's excited enough to go volunteer to chop down a tree for an Army barracks? Nobody, that...