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...Richard Strauss, another sail-trimmer, is active at 76. Although he lives near Munich, he lately visited Berlin, conducted performances of his operas Ariadne and Arabella. Last spring he wrote a festival piece for Axis-partner Japan-an apotheosis of the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire...
...period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses...
...Crew cuts are gradually going out" said one man, a trimmer of Harvard heads for 20 years. "About seven years ago the boys began to wear their hair for comfort instead of looks. But the girls are beginning to put the pressure on the crew cuts now. The boys who do let their hair grow have it cut only about once a month...
Toiling and conscientious "Roy" Bulkley is. He works as hard as any man in the Senate. If he wavers on some national issues, that, his friends maintain, is because his mind moves deliberately, not because he is a trimmer. In support of this theory are his three votes against the Soldiers' Bonus, a remark he once made to Ohio Democratic chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus...
Towards evening they pulled up on a deserted country road a few miles north-west of Boswell, Okla. and decided to wait for dark. Farmer Trimmer, a silent man, was-still at the wheel, with Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living...