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Major Steffen was a South African who came from Luxemburg. With a crate of pigeons strapped to him he bailed out from an airplane over Luxemburg one black night early in 1918. His mission was to discover whether the Germans were concentrating troops in the Grand Duchy for the great March offensive. He landed in a field, badly shaken. Groping in the dark he hid his parachute in a hedge, trudged 20 miles to his father's house, arriving just before dawn. Two of his three pigeons subsequently reached British G.H.Q. The message they bore was, in effect, no German...
...Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange that she threatened to withdraw, crate and ship back to the U. S. the entire Whitney exhibit (101 pictures) unless the unauthorized Davies portrait was removed...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...
...committee announced that at least 5,000 U. S. communities would celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday on Jan. 30 and help to raise a permanent endowment fund for his favorite charity, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. To Warm Springs went a most impressive birthday present -a vast crate containing a glittering pinnacle of frosted fruit cake, six feet high and weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift of the committee's chairman, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty. Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction...
...crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing property. The Elis cheered, and cheered, and late that night sent it back to New Haven under special guard in a special crate. It had been kept in a house in a neighboring village and was returned to Cambridge to the Lampoon building Friday morning. A picture of the Lampoon janitor leaning against the historic fence had been taken and had been used as the cover of the Yale game issue of the Lampoon...