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Under the Trees. Each obstacle underlined the necessity of success. One afternoon the delegates left their complexities on the tables, went over to the Muir Woods National Monument to dedicate a plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. As a shaft of sunlight struck through the interlaced redwood branches, Brazil's Leāo Velloso said hopefully that the Conference was building "on indestructible foundations, a civilization in which wars will be placed outside...
...featured, with clear blue eyes and invariably wrinkled clothes, he has a perpetual air of urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before. He lives with his pretty wife Charlotte (who writes children's books) and his daughter Marion, 17, in a modern redwood-paneled house. With some neighbors, he organized an armchair strategists' society after Pearl Harbor. Jackson also belongs to a club of mystery-story writers (Erie Stanley Gardner was an editorial colleague on the Sunset). For one club dinner, which 13 members were scheduled to attend, it was decided that...
...Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. He went into selling because a Colgate executive questioned the impact of one of his layouts and he had to prove personally how good it was. The nearest he has been to architecting since was to design his colonial house in Barrington, Ill. and his redwood ranch house in San Diego County, Calif...
...soldiers, is widely expanding its Far Eastern research, is playing a major role in bringing the U.S. into a global educational setup. For two weeks every month Paul Hanna leaves his wife and children and a Palo Alto hilltop which in peacetime was a tripper's cynosure: a redwood, cement and sheet-glass honeycomb architectured by Frank Lloyd Wright...
...coffins. Some said the supply would last only six weeks, others thought about four months. The trouble began last summer when WPB banned metal coffins, forced all manufacturers to wood. Since then things have gone from bad to worse-coffin makers cannot get standard woods like walnut, mahogany or redwood, must use soft pine and poplar. New kilns for wood drying are not available ; coffin workers are romping off to war plants (one Pennsylvania outfit has already lost 35% of its employes). Unless WPB soon eases its restrictions, most undertakers will have to go back to the Middle Ages technique...