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...York State Museum solved the riddle, and at the same time implied that either geologists should get outdoors more or, when they did get out, should be looking at other things besides rocks. The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver...
...generations New York State farmers have called these plains beaver meadows but geologists failed to take the hint...
...Geologists," mildly observed Geologists Ruedemann and Schoonmaker, when announcing their rediscovery of the beaver, "apparently have overlooked this important geologic agent...
Other assorted intimates are Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, Novelist Rebecca West. Best U. S. friend is Wall Street Plunger Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, who met Beaverbrook in 1930 when he sued him for libel.* Ben Smith sells the Beaver U. S. airplanes, talks to him several times a month on the transatlantic telephone and consults him on his own British publishing venture, Cavalcade, a TiMElike news magazine...
...Empire. On Nov. 20, 1936, Lord Beaverbrook arrived in Manhattan on a trip that was scheduled to take him to Arizona for his asthma. Why, asked ship newsmen, were Beaverbrook's papers sitting on the Edward-Mrs. Simpson story? "Who? Me?" said the Beaver. "I know nothing about Mrs. Simpson." A few hours later he turned around and went back to London, impishly letting it be known that the sea voyage had so benefited him that he might just continue to shuttle back & forth across the Atlantic...