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...Pete" Little was practically born a geneticist. He received a pair of pigeons when he was 3 years old. By the time he was 7 he bred a pair which won a first prize. Then he took up mice. He inbred his first pair of mice, brown brother and sister, in 1909 when he was a Harvard junior, and has been inbreeding their progeny ever since. The herd accompanied him to Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. when he became assistant director of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution (1919), to Orono...
...Ketchum, Idaho, the Union Pacific Railroad's wintersports rival to St. Moritz, the U. S. Amateur Skiing Championships, originally scheduled for Mt. Washington, N. H., were combined with the U. S. Open. Dartmouth's astonishing Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second...
...when Patrick Kennedy was born in East Boston, U. S. clippers were carrying 66% of the nation's trade. By 1888, when Pat Kennedy was running a saloon in and the politics of Boston's Ward 2, ironclad steamers manned with cheap labor had sent U. S. shipping to Davy Jones's locker and only 13% of U. S. foreign trade was being carried in U. S. bottoms. That year Pat Kennedy...
Joseph Patrick was born. By 1914, when Joe Kennedy was a hard-working Massachusetts bank examiner two years out of Harvard, U. S. shipping had hit bottom, was carrying only 8% of U. S. trade...
...Born, To Francis Burton Harrison, 63, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines who became a naturalized Filipino last November; and Margaret Wrentmore Harrison; a daughter; in Manila...