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...other singles matches, Henry Moulton of the NROTC was defeated by Kiam of Andover, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; fourth seeded Don Willner topped Chapin, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5' Milton Stearns of the NROTC took Griener, 6-0, 6-1; and Ed Slater lost to Andover's Estin...
...Army appealed to ornithologists, who scratched their heads. Cats were imported, but large-winged boobies routed the cats. Dr. James Chapin, associate curator of the American Museum of Natural History, made a special trip. His uncomplicated solution was to destroy their eggs until the birds gave up, nested elsewhere. Last week ATC personnel ate eggs, walked on eggs, had the situation at Wideawake "fairly well" in hand...
Among the department's 1,500 reference maps, charts and photographs are some from the U.S. Hydrographic Office that show Truk and Guadalcanal in such detail that coral reefs and buildings as small as Chapin's office are visible-and a set of very detailed Admiralty charts of the French, Spanish and Italian coasts that Chapin dug up in anticipation of an Allied invasion practically anywhere. This week's TIME map of Tunisia was based on the French automobile blue book and the very hard-to-come-by Atlas des Colonies Francaises...
...keep ahead of the news Chapin and his associates have built up a "bank" chock full of maps they have drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...
...respect, however, Chapin's map-making has helped him not at all. He still gets lost every time he takes the subway to Brooklyn...