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...Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent a telegram to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of Alaska Agricultural College & School of Mines, asking him to investigate. Two days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed the discovery...
...picture has its principal appeal in the fact that it is supposed to be based on the life of Jenny Lind, "Swedish Nightingale" of the Victorian Opera stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history?the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...
...summary: YALE 1934 HARVARD 1934 Tyson, Weston, l.e. r.e., Choate, Lowe, Crocker Kilcullen, l.e. r.f., Kopans, Rogers Nichols, Barnum, Pierson, l.g. r.g., Devino, Ferry Malen, c. c., Lockwood, Crane, Freezer Holcombe, Saner, r.g. l.g., Nazro, Lawrence Jackson, r.t. l.t., Healey, Simmons Broaca, Wilderming, Kimball, r.e. l.e., Lowe, Baldwin Lassiter, q.b. q.b., Peter, Whitney, Reale Hughes, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hurlbut, Nevin, Cheek Gengerally, r.h.b. l.h.b., Pescosolido, Martin, McClees Phillips, f.b. f.b., Dean, Waters, Gleason, Hine...
...Barnum was right...
...Arizona. Last year Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) found the shattered fragments of a fossil reptile in Arizona. He carefully preserved each piece. But when he tried to put his little 3-ft. reptile together, he found many of the fragments missing. He recognized the fossil as the remains of an ancestor of the ancient dinosaur. This year he went to Arizona again, sifted 15 tons of dirt through fly screens. Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle. The small reptile which...