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It was daylight one morning many years ago when the late Joe Frisco, the stuttering comedian, walked into the hotel where he made his home at that time. He was just returning from a poker game.

The clean-up cre\ r was just in the process of cleaning up the big lobby of the hotel. All the furniture and fixings of the lobby had been shoved over to the walls and corners, and the sweeping and washing crews were busy.

There were about thirty big brass cuspidors in the lobby, and the workers had shoved them all onto one side of the room. It happened that a big picture of the President hung

New TPL Executives Announced

A. Stanwood Murphy, president of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, announces that the board of directors have elected Norman B. Livermore, Jr., treasurer. Merle L. Walker was re-elected assistant secrtary and also appointed controller of the company. Lawrence H. Sabey was made eastern sales manager, with headquarters in Chicago, and Harold Bendorf was appointed assistant sales manag'er and sales-production coordinator, with headquarters in San Francisco.

Norman B. Livermore, Jr., who joined The Pacific Lumber Company in 1952, had previously conducted his own logging, sawmill and remanufacturing operations. Merle L. Walker joined The Pacific Lumber Company in 1923, holding various positions in the accounting department until his election to the post of assistant secretary in 1947, when he was also appointed auditor of the company. Lawrence H. Sabey was promoted from assistant eastern sales manager. He has been with the company since 1933, with the exception of a seven year period when he was with the California Redwood Distributors, which represented The Pacific Lumber Company. Prior to Harold- Bendorf's appointment, his 33 years with The Pacific Lumber Company embraced various positions in the manufacturing and sales departments. Bendorf's career in the lumber business has been long and varied, dating from early days in the Sierra Pine region. He, together with two brothers and a sister, have a combined service record with the company of almost 150 years.

on the wall just at that point, so the pile of cuspidors were right under the portrait. Frisco sized up this situation for a few moments, and then remarked:

"I knew he was a gu-gu-great man, but I had no idea he w-w-won all those cups."