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...Gordon Wiley the Middies have a sprint man who will be favored to annex the 50 and give Captain Powers a stiff fight in the 100. In the distances, however, the Ulenmen will have a decided advantage. Jim Conger heads the Navy 220 and 440 delegations, but he will probably be limited to one second in the quarter. Powers and Bus Curwen will be favored to sweep the 220, and Curwen will...
Sunfish and horse mackerel, although not mad at anyone, make a harsh sound by grinding their lower pharyngeal teeth together. Conger eels bark, schoolmasters sound as if they were delivering a lecture, and the oldwife gossips away with chirps and chatters. The male weakfish, during the mating season, vibrates his air bladder with such vigor that he can be heard six feet above water while he is sounding off from 50 feet under...
...Streptococcus. Mastitis, or inflammation of the udders, disables more cattle than any other disease, costs U. S. farmers millions of dollars every year. Last week Dr. Charles Conger Palmer of the University of Delaware said that he had found a new kind of streptococcus, never described before, in the udders of heifers with mastitis. Sometimes it flourishes alone, at other times it grows along with Staphylococcus aureus, the germ which causes one form of mastitis in cows, boils and pimples in man. Dr. Palmer and his associates are now trying to discover whether it also infects human beings...
...communication with The Netherlands fell silent. Marooned there, with most of U. P.'s staff. were other newsmen who had stuck to their posts, including Reilly O'Sullivan and Max Harrelson of Associated Press. One was the New York Herald Tribune'?, 27-year-old Seymour Beach Conger, expelled from Germany six months ago (TIME, Nov. 27) for filing unfavorable dispatches. His wife, Marion Conger, meanwhile covered the war in Paris...
...story featured by the Herald Tribune on page 1, Beach Conger wrote in November...