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...arctic snows, as in the Alabama bottoms, the slave's sentiment is: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child...
...Siberia and in the arctic wastes of the Soviet Union, millions of song-loving Russians are working in forced labor camps. With words and music, they too describe their bitter life and express their longing for home. In the current issue of the Russian-language Paris magazine Narodnaya Pravda, many of their songs are set down by an exile who calls himself S. Yurasov...
Last week, Audubon Society members had completed scores of bird counts which proved that the U.S. will have a booming owl winter. From Arctic Canada had come reports that lemmings, the mouselike rodents which are the favorite food of snowy owls, are critically scarce. In years of plenty, when Arctic vegetation is growing vigorously, the lemming population builds up until the barren lands are alive with lemmings. The owls increase too. Well-fed with lemmings, they lay and hatch clutches of ten eggs or more...
...every three or four years, hard times come to the barren lands. For some reason (possibly sunspots), the Arctic vegetation is not so nutritious as usual this year; the lichens and mosses on which the lemmings feed apparently lack vitamins. Naturalists call such a time a "crash year." On noiseless, downy wings the great owls drift across the U.S. boundary looking for U.S. mice. Sometimes they get as far as southern Illinois or even the Carolinas...
Died. George Palmer Putnam, 63, publisher, author and explorer, husband of the late Amelia Earhart (the second of his four wives); of uremic poisoning; in Trona, Calif. Head of two scientific expeditions to the Arctic in the '20s, Putnam was best known as sponsor of Amelia Earhart's 1932 Atlantic solo flight (the first made by a woman), and as publisher of Charles Lindbergh's bestselling autobiography...