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...District Court; Columnist Joseph W. Alsop, Jr. '32 of Washington, D. C.; William A. M. Burden '27, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Publisher Philip S. Weld '36, of Gloucester; Attorney Richard H. Field '26, former General Counsel of the O. P. A.; W. Nelson Bump '29, vice-president of Pan American Airlines; and Attorney Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, 1941 All-American guard...
...excited and hopeful man, Dr. Gardiner Bump of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was driving busily around Washington last week in a specially equipped jeep, preparing for the most interesting job of his career. In the next week or so Dr. Bump, his son Robert and his jeep will head for the Near East to look for new game birds which will be used to restock the depleted U.S. Southwest...
...along with civilized man for many millennia. One of them is the meaty bustard (crane family), which sometimes weighs as much as 30 Ibs. Among others are the decorative, long-tailed francolin (a kind of partridge) and a varied assortment of edible grouse. Some of the birds, Dr. Bump hopes, will be able to thrive in parts of the U.S. where the original native birds have given up the battle...
...Bump's special favorites is the sand grouse, which nests as much as 25 miles from water. It lives on desert seeds and commutes every day to the nearest waterhole. In some still unknown way it brings water back to its grounded young. Dr. Bump hopes that the sand grouse can colonize U.S. bird pastures that are too far from water for any U.S. game bird...
...When Dr. Bump catches his Near Eastern birds, he will ship samples back by air. After the Wildlife Service has decided that they carry no dangerous parasites, are not likely to become a nuisance as the English sparrow did and will not compete too much with native birds, they will be liberated in the most suitable places. If, ten years hence, a startled Arizona hunter flushes a 30-lb., long-necked bustard out of a cactus thicket, he will have Dr. Bump to thank...