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The cartoon was less funny than the comments with which Dr. Abbot dressed up an astrophysical lecture in Rochester a few months ago. At that event learned Dr. Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for...
Arriving in Manhattan after a two-month cruise in the Gulf of California, William Beebe, popular authority on fish, revealed that for the first time in his life he had caught a big fish-a 207-lb. swordfish which he landed in 35 minutes.
The Galapagos Islands, 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, were well-known to the old U. S. whalers; Darwin found there one more piece of evidence for his big theory; but modern newspaper readers first became aware of them when William Beebe landed there (1923), reported huge lizards, other...
"No novelist could possibly improve on the drama of Disraeli's life exactly as he lived it." Author Elswyth Thane (Mrs. William Beebe) has a neat thesis which demands more than ordinary biographical skill, but readers of Young Mr. Disraeli last week agreed that she had it. Her biography...
Mr. Beebe handles personalities and events alike in the same warm, colorful manner, unconscious of the historical method or historical convention. He catches an atmosphere and makes a legend come alive. He shows contradictions and complexities and contrasts but puts them into a single and nicely-wrought whole. Let him...