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Looking insufferably bored, Glenna Collett saw her ball dip over a swell of grass and disappear into the tenth hole of the course of the St. Louis Country Club. Her father was a famous amateur bicycle rider. Her bust measurement is 36 inches. She had on a lemon sweater, buff skirt, tan hat. The public displayed some interest in these facts because, by virtue of that putt, she won for the second time the U. S. women's golf championship...
...years hence, if experiments by Dr. F. A. E. Crew, director of the biological research laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, reported at the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Sept. 24) fulfill his expectations. Dr. Crew took a pure-bred buff Orpington hen which had already laid eggs, and by an artificial glandular process little understood, changed its sex. At least, the comb, wattles and spurs grew, the bird crowed instead of cackled, paid attention to other hens, and, when mated with a hen of his own breed, became the father...
...know him. . . as a lonely figure riding of a morning through Rock Creek Park, wearing an immense sombrero, kid gloves, buff waistcoat and an old riding coat. The clothes fit the personality of the wearer. Sensible, unostentatious, efficient, with an occasional outburst of color in waistcoat...
Died. George L. Buff, 84, manufacturer of instruments which have been used in surveying practically every great engineering feat for 50 years...
...order to obtain books, the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number or shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...