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...Mackinaws and Black Beans. To help him, Gardner has hired 150 of the toughest woodsmen he could find. Most of them come from New Brunswick-hard-muscled, catfooted lumberjacks who like to wear the loudest mackinaw shirts that money can buy. They work in crews of six, travel in bateaux (oversized row-boats), sometimes wade chest-deep in icy water. They will seldom be dry until the logs reach Keegan late in June. They eat prodigiously and often (breakfast at dawn, first lunch at 10 a.m., second at 2 p.m., supper in the early evening). The river staples are meat...
...cool, rocky Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, overlooking the strait where Lake Huron joins Lake Michigan, 43 members of the Republican Post-War Advisory Council met this week to chart their course through trickier waters. Their problem : what statement of foreign policy will best suit and serve the people of the Republic and therefore the Party? Whatever should come out of the meeting, it was clear from the start that G.O.P...
...replied that he only wanted to help the G.O.P. win an election. With a huff & puff, Mr. Spangler informed the R.P.P.A. that he would be glad to submit their proposals to the Republican Postwar Advisory Council (formed by Mr. Spangler last May), which meets next month at Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, Mich...
...Making the Mackinac" (pronounced mackinaw) is the dream of every inland yachtsman. Not only is it the world's longest fresh-water race (331 miles as the duck paddles), but according to old salts it is no less hazardous than the longer, more spectacular ocean races. In 35 thrashes to Mackinac since 1904, no lives have been lost, but enough boats have been disabled to give the affair a fearsome reputation. One year only eight of 42 starters reached the finish line. Often the winning boat takes nearly four days. Once an all-female crew took two weeks...
...year-old frame farmhouse, tall, strapping Ralph Delair crawled out of bed at 5:30, pulled on long underwear, two heavy shirts, ankle-high shoes, blue denim overalls, two sweaters, a thick mackinaw, a battered felt hat. He started a roaring wood fire in the nickel-plated kitchen range, touched a match to ash and hackberry logs in the living-room fireplace...