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...stone's throw from its "collegiate Gothic" Green Hall, Wellesley College will put up two ultramodern buildings containing a 350-seat combined theater, lecture and recital hall and a gallery for art exhibitions. The gift of Spokane Lumber Tycoon George Frederick Jewett and his wife (Wellesley '23 and a trustee of the college) and their son and daughter, the buildings will form the Jewett Art, Music and Theater Center. Said President Margaret Clapp of the gift: "Aware of the challenge which automation will present to the good use of leisure time, and aware that women educated through...
Among U.S. public-school men there is a favorite story which, though apocryphal, keeps making the rounds. Some years ago, it seems, a certain school construction yard in the state of Washington was the victim of nightly raids by a mysterious band of lumber thieves. No one knew how to cope with the situation-until the matter came to the attention of the state's new school superintendent, a doughty housewife named Pearl Wanamaker. Pearl simply took out her shotgun, parked herself in the yard for two nights running. The raids ceased; the lumber was saved; Pearl once again...
LABOR PEACE for the often-struck Northwest lumber industry seems assured until June 1957. Lumbermen announced an 18-month agreement with 80,000 of some 100,000 workers, including more than 30,000 members of the International Woodworkers of America. Industry pattern calls for an approximate 4¼% wage increase (about 9? per hour) that will add more than $20 million to the industry's annual costs...
...sports is that businessmen tend to overexert and fret over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete: '"The great appeal of sports like golf, tennis and skeetshooting is that you can mark down your score on a card and have something to show for your time. But if you feel that way, you don't know too much about relaxation...
...even less excusable that land rights on Federal mining claims should be granted without restrictions. Lumber companies which operate on Federal lands must receive a license, and they are closely supervised by the U.S. Forest Service, which compels them to harvest their timber in accordance with sound conservation theory. Yet "mining companies", which ordinarily operate for such a short period of time that they have no natural stake in conservation, usually mine the timber on their claim without control, making no effort to restore the forest...