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...Mitchell, 22, daughter of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles Edwin Mitchell (Blyth & Co. Inc.), onetime (1929-33) board chairman of National City Bank; and President George Adam Rentschler Jr., 44, of General Machinery Corp. (Hamilton, Ohio), brother of National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler and of Board Chairman Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; in Manhattan...
...gunners were gratified to learn that this year Canadian gunners, though allowed two months to shoot the birds which breed in their country, are limited to a daily bag of twelve ducks, five geese or brant...
Three other changes made by the Survey were certainly not calculated to win the Roosevelt Administration votes on the Atlantic seaboard. To the list of protected birds it added Atlantic brant, canvasback and redhead ducks. Daily bag limits for 1936 remain as in 1935 - ten ducks of all species and four geese or brant - with only one day's bag allowed in possession at any time...
...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...
...limits: ten ducks and four geese or brant...