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...about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters, birdmen, trainers. For imparting personality to his animal characters, he is another Kipling, though without that writer's fanciful propensity for endowing beasts with unscientific abilities...
...Lord Renfrew was at Mitchel Field to welcome the U. S. periterrestrial flyers (see Page 31). The crowd gave him a splendid welcome until the birdmen appeared upon the horizon, then they forgot him in their natural enthusiasm for the flyers' splendid feat. For the second time?the first was in London?the Baron gripped the hands of the aviators, heartily congratulated them...
...Future birdmen among members of the University have an opportunity to receive their training by entrapment student aviators at the Naval Redcliffe Air Station at Squantum. Admission R. de Steigner, Commandant the First Naval District has announced that a class of 20 college graduates and undergraduates, in which several vacancies will be held for Harvard representatives, is now being formed to receive flying instruction...
There is something singularly tragic in his death. He was just about to be retired for a time to use his astonishing ability in the training of our new birdmen, and General Pershing had expressed a wish that "Lufbery had his last flight." The strange irony of fate made Pershing's wish fulfil itself, not in the spirit, but in the letter...