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...Texan outfits in many places, men of a fighting breed, not easily diverted from the joys of soldiering...
...officials worried themselves sick over the effect of his remarks in the other American republics. Official reaction from the south was to ignore the loud wind, but how often the interview would be quoted by Axis agents and how much ill will it might breed, no man could calculate...
Third answer is increased breeding. Said a curator: "It's about time the animals themselves pitch in and help." Though the St. Louis and Chicago zoos have long been enthusiastic animal breeders, many other U.S. zoos have felt it was somehow indelicate to encourage procreation among their beasts. This spinsterish squeamishness, typified by a New Yorker cartoon in 1936 (see cut), is now gone. When mates are not available, animals are sent on romantic journeys. The Bronx Zoo is sending two male ostrichlike Argentine rheas to the Washington Zoo, which has two females. The offspring will be divided...
This summer's Mormon cricket threat is history's worst. The idea of aerial baiting, first offensive against the Mormon cricket, is to prevent the insects from leaving the mountain fastnesses where they breed. Total extermination of the crickets is not planned, nor is it possible. "We are not interested in what they do back in the mountains," said a bombing officer last week. "So far as we are concerned, the crickets can eat the top off of Pikes Peak if they want...
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard rushed cross-country to his 360-acre Indiana farm when he heard his special breed of hogs was doing poorly, declaring he'd show the veterinarians a thing or two. ∽∽ Joseph Alsop, who gave up his syndicated Washington column to join Naval Intelligence, was ordered to India. ∽∽ Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, the President's longtime personal secretary, lay ill of neuritis in a Washington hospital, planned a month's rest when...