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That leisurely trip ended when Schulman & family checked into their Seattle hotel room to find a query from New York. Before his wife and daughter had finished unpacking their bags, Schulman was busy digging up the Seattle end of the story on the crisis in the Alaskan salmon fishing and packing industry. The next day came another assignment, which called for equipment that Schulman never before had needed in his 17 years of metropolitan news reporting: high boots. Alaskan mukluks, parka and long underwear. With this gear he flew to Victoria, B.C., drove 135 miles across Vancouver Island to catch...
...Says Schulman: "On that week-long missionary jaunt, when the sea got rough and the craft started to heave and roll through the reefs like a Coney Island roller coaster, the Gospel-quoting skipper began to sing My Heart Is Full of Joy. I joined in-the best seasickness preventive yet." Faced with one fast-breaking story after another, the Schulmans spent Christmas in their hotel, finally moved into a house on the first of the year. But since then the house has seen little of Schulman...
...reporter," says Schulman, "the Northwest is like the surface of a great lake full of hot springs. Everywhere you look there are hot bubbles popping up." One of the big stories bubbling to be told was that of the construction empire of Harry Morrison (TIME, May 3), whose headquarters are in Boise, Idaho. Schulman took off on this story in mid-January. It kept him busy almost exclusively through mid-March (except for side trips to Alaska and the interior of Washington state for other stories) on trips to Boise, San Francisco and British Columbia...
...Schulman had collected 10 Ibs. of research, a list of worldwide sources for other TIME correspondents to tap, and the comment from Morrison that Reporter Schulman now knew enough about the business to hire on as a construction stiff...
...Schulman declined the offer in favor of remaining a reporter covering the news of the Pacific Northwest. Says he: "Not only is the country big, but so are the achievements and plans of the people. And the people want you to see what they have done, from the biggest operator down to the gyppologger or the settler who is living in a tent and farming 160 irrigated acres in the Columbia Basin. And in seeing some of this, you get the gnawing feeling that you are never going to catch up with the immensity of the development out here." Cordially...