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...About six years ago, Mme Becker's husband died-she said of cancer-leaving a thriving lumberyard. She quickly ran the business into the ground, looked around for a new husband to support her. One M. Costadot. who was unfortunately a married man, struck her fancy. One evening, as they chatted pleasantly about a film they had just seen. Widow Becker brewed tea for Mme Costadot. She died...
...years he worked in a brewery at Erie, Pa., giving it up "when I saw how often brewers became their own best customers." His next job was in a sawmill on the banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned to the source of the lumber business, the forest. Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming...
...Author, A native of Brooklyn, Robert Whitcomb, 32, comes from "good stock, Yankee Americans" with a dash of Dutch. He has studied forestry, worked in a lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb...
Park Avenue and 53rd Street with the lumberyard behind. But if Mr. Junge has not talked, the First Ladies and their programs have. The first Mrs. Wilson and Margaret, who had a pretty voice, took great pride in helping plan the musicales. Mrs. Harding, whose favorite piece was "The End of a Perfect Day," was less interested. Mrs. Coolidge, who plays the piano a bit herself, liked Rachmaninoff and Violinist Albert Spalding. Mrs. Hoover's favorite musician was Harpist Mildred Dilling, whose most famed pupil is Harpo Marx...
...King Louie to jump with his chute, but now he felt he must stay and look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard, the bag fouled a telephone pole, spilling out such an enormous belch of black smoke that scared villagers thought the town was afire...