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...events of the two days had projected into the news and given at least a footnote in history to a man hardly known to the U.S. public. Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman (six generations of Averys have been lumber men), Sewell Avery was born in Saginaw in 1874. After graduation from Michigan University Law School (1894), he started at the bottom in a small gypsum plant owned by his father. At 22 he was manager. In 1901 the company was absorbed by the U.S. Gypsum Co.; four years later, Sewell Avery was president of U.S. Gypsum. A suave...
...Jones, Professor of English and Chairman of the Modern Languages Division, has done just about everything else, however. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, young Jones, after two years at the State Normal School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, attended Wisconsin University where he majored in English, graduating in 1914 with Harvard colleague Sumner Slichter. It was the age of the "Wisconsin Idea;" it was also a time when Mid-Western writers were rebelling against the literary dictation of New York; when the Wisconsin players were presenting plays by Zona Gale. William Leonard, Laura Sherry--and H. M. Jones, the latter already...
Concerned with souls as well as profits is the Severance Tool Co. (all-purpose tools) of Saginaw, Mich. To get a job, prospective Severance employes must agree to attend one of the 20-minute religious devotion periods held at the start of each of the three daily shifts...
Then his faithful fox terrier got sick, and Jake hired a handy man named Percy Fogelsonger to care for the dog. Oldtimers in Bay City remembered Percy as one of the lumberjacks who used to come into town in the '903 birling logs down the Saginaw Bay. For the last 40 years he had lived from hand to mouth. When Jake's dog recovered, Percy kept hanging around and finally Jake got another lathe and put him to work. Once more Jake was in the contracting business...
...little town of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 15 miles from Detroit. Here advanced students of the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art work over maps, diagrams and statistics, rearranging the streets and buildings of such gigantic U.S. cities as Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago. In several smaller midwest cities, like Flint and Saginaw, their plans have actually been tried...