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...unorthodox theology, ministers from university campuses across the nation come to study at Austin's community in the heartland of religious orthodoxy. They hear God discussed as the "void," and the traditional dogmas of the Virgin Birth, Resurrection and Holy Trinity dismissed as so much deadwood in the lumberyard of faith. Fundamentalists, in turn, dismiss the community as heretical, but the leaders of the group consider themselves to be "in the middle of the Christian tradition." How to Be a Layman. Now ten years old, Austin's community is a radical Protestant version of the Catholic Newman clubs...
...kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
Delbert LeRoy True, pride of the anthropology department at the University of California at Los Angeles, is a hard-handed man of 37. Son of a lumberyard foreman in Wilmington, Calif., True as a boy was a fascinated fossil hunter and "hooked on California Indians." But when he graduated from high school in 1941, he had no money for college ("My family has always figured the hell with education"). True worked in a shipyard, served as an aerial-gunnery instructor in World War II, acquired a small avocado ranch in the Pauma Valley. In 1953 some U.C.L.A. anthropologists interviewed local...
...dominant artistic force in his family. She encouraged Ed in his talent for drawing, gave him an upstairs bedroom for his carpenter shop. There, as a boy of 14, Stone designed the structure that won his first architectural contest-a birdhouse for a contest sponsored by the local lumberyard. Budding Architect Stone's entry and first-prize ($2.50) winner: "A modest shelter for bluebirds, covered with sassafras branches...
...Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap, has been floating around longer than any of them.* Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than 100 real-life problems involving alcoholism, civic intrigue and second marriages. This week the problem was divorce. Ma's indomitable spirit and homely wisdom have glowed through...