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...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 Maine...
Springfield, Mo., "queen city of the Ozarks" (pop. 96,350) has convinced millions, through radio and TV, that it is the home of country music. While other radio stations were scratching out pop music on wax, Springfield's KWTO (Keep Watching the Ozarks) gave its listeners live, howling hillbillies...
...which is slightly disconcerting at times especially coming forth from balloon-like limbs. But in this as in other exaggerations he is striving for rhythm. The roundness of the figures, their repeated curved gestures and the arrangement of objects reinforce the swinging effect. Even the paint, or rather melted wax (encaustic) helps to quicken movement applied as it often is in windy veils of color. Berger's canvases could be likened to snow globes in the midst of a storm...
Perambulating mops known as Yorkshire terriers had their fragile silken locks bound up in wax paper and rubber bands whenever they were out of the ring; often they wore woolen booties to keep from scratching up their own coiffures. But the most pampered were the poodles. Ch. Wilber White Swan, a tiny (just 6 Ibs.) four-year-old poodle, patiently put up with hours of clipping, shearing, shampooing (with bluing), and. of course, the inevitable, endless bout with brush and comb. Some 70 toy poodles, including eight of Wilber's get, stole the show...
...Dreiser's philosophy of poverty is in eclipse. Few today will respect his ultimate decision, but it must be conceded that his fiction came from deep in American life. Dreiser could not bear a world in which beloved brothers could die friendless, in which foreign aristocrats could sneer, wax rich and make wars, in which women-as in An American Tragedy-could be murdered because they became pregnant at socially inappropriate times...