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Those who gave blood were James Cogan, Superintendent of Adams House, George Leighton, Superintendent of Holmes Hall, Robert McCarthy, patrolman of the University police force, Charles McDonald, a buildings and grounds worker, Gerald O'Sullivan, a maintenance man, and James Babcock, a boss carpenter in the employ of the University, who gave his 31st donation of blood. Two other University workers also contributed...
Died. Howard Edward Babcock, 61, farm-born Cornell farm economist; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He argued that the U.S. farm economy would be bolstered, and U.S. health improved, if farmers would raise more livestock and consumers would eat more livestock products, devised a calf-faced, rooster-crested turkey-winged cow-pig-sheep, the "Unimal" (TIME, June 19), as a symbol of his program...
...farm surpluses would fade away and the country would be a lot healthier. There was certainly a high demand for meat: cattle raisers get no subsidy and want none, and yet porterhouse was selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings...
...Babcock of the Maintenance Department have been unfair to a superb creature when you refer to the Memorial Hall pigeon-killer as a "huge chicken hawk." Leaving aside the fact there is no recognized species of "chicken hawk," this particular bird is a Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum), the American version of the falcon, traditionally used for hunting...
...ornithologist doubted that the hawk or hawks were solely responsible for the 75 pigeon carcasses found in the Memorial Hall tower Friday by James Babcock, sub-foreman of the Maintenance Department. Duck hawks are only half as meaty as pigeons, he says, and would hardly eat more than one third of the pigeon...