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Etna, the great hump of Sicily, was just lukewarm then, with an occasional wisp of smoke emanating from its 10,000 foot cone and only the heat still left in old lava flows to hint at its previous activity...
Even when, on the evening of March 18, we turned out to watch the red hot ribbons winding down the cone, there was no inkling of violence and the next day we took time out to get a closer view of the molten streams on higher levels. Four nights later, though, ominous rumblings shook the ground under us, and a new form of rain descended on us rain which cut right through our tents...
...Herbert Huebener Beck of Lancaster, Pa. is a man who can take an active interest at the drop of an oriole's egg, a pine cone or a test tube. At 71 he is president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, belongs to the American Chemical Society, the American Ornithologists Union and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. He is also custodian of the Audubon Society's sanctuary for bald eagles on Mount Johnson Island in the lower Susquehanna River...
...Faroe shepherds have adapted themselves to seeing their sheep blown off the cliffs; Faroe ponies (who double as sheepdogs) have adapted themselves to eating fish heads when grass is scarce; and the Faroe sea birds have learned to lay cone-shaped eggs that roll around, but not off, the narrow ledges where they nest...
...Stand. Jaws dropped all along ad agency row last week as "the Fear" was felt in the offices of Ruthrauff & Ryan. Mr. Hill's $3,000,000 radio account (Frank Morgan and Jack Benny) was quietly taken from R.&R. and handed to Foote, Cone & Belding, thus giving the agency all of American Tobacco's advertising accounts (worth about $900,000 a year in commissions to F.C.&B.). It was the second body blow for R.&R. in the past two weeks (TIME, Sept. 2) but the agency seemed to be bearing up nobly. Although many an adman...