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Custom-Made Trees. The industry's brightest hope for the future, as one lumberman said recently, is in "man's resourcefulness grafted on nature's resources." Sawdust and shavings today are swept thriftily into plastics, glues and hardboards. From the bark come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from...
...grey-eyed Polly Veyron, an American girl on an extended fling to whom everything is "so exciting," Stenham looks pretty exciting, but cranky, too. Polly's head is stuffed with progressive sawdust, but her personality seems to have been forged at U.S. Steel. Her idea of mixing fun and politics is to give an Arab boy enough money to go out and buy himself a revolver. The boy in question is named Amar-cousin to Kipling's wily quiz kid, Kim. He makes a good deal of The Spider's House into a kind of child...
...basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages over the tent-it was safer, the used lumber could be sold, and the noise of hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high above the audience, flanked by brass instruments and brass-throated singers, Billy Sunday's sack suit, white waistcoat, wing collar and spats were put through some of the strangest performances ever enacted...
Forgotten Man. Were the thousands who hit the sawdust trail much different from what they were before they hit? Author William G. McLoughlin Jr., a political science professor at Brown University and Billy Sunday's first full-dress biographer, believes that most of the "converts" were already pious members of the rural middle class, giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord...
...told a TIME reporter. "Any politician who is forthright, honest and candid must confess that it is the greatest honor which can come to a citizen. I'm not going to lie to the people, and I'm not going to be coy." In the political sawdust of California, Goodie Knight is not the only or the leading presidential possibility. Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator William Knowland both have ambitions for the highest office too. The Senator, preoccupied with Asian policy and sometimes out of step with the Eisenhower Administration, is-for the moment-the least favorite...