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Since his labor-peace dove was discovered to be an old black carrion crow, John L. Lewis has scarcely raised his eyes from the pavement. But under his bushy eyebrows he has been toiling deviously away. Last week he corralled a handful of wandering dairy farmers and solemnly anointed them with membership in his United Mine Workers. He was gathering votes and manpower to recover his ascendancy in the C.I.O...
Last week Ray Dumont announced the birth of another brain child: an "eagle's nest" for umpires. Like the crow's nest tried out at a Southern Oregon State Normal basketball game last month, the ballpark nest will be about ten feet above the ground, will give the base umpire a bird's-eye view of the infield. But Dumont's nest will be perched on a movable derrick, which, at the press of a button, will whisk the umpire to crucial spots...
Shot. Near Pomona, Calif., Ranchman C. E. Foote shot at a crow. The shot frightened his horse, whose shoe struck sparks from a rock. The sparks set a fire that burned 25 acres of land. The crow escaped...
...final class filed inlast week, Professor Keller gruffly put his last quiz. Question: "It has been stated that the Crow Indians have no religion; what is the evidence?" Quiz and lecture over, the professor bristled and harrumphed: "You have been a good class to conclude with and so we will conclude our relations at this point." (A storm of applause.) Professor Keller peered around the room, cleared his throat: ". . . Some of you and some of your fathers have done some awfully asinine things. . . ." (Deafening applause.) Muttering a farewell, "Non dum emeritus, sed emeriturus, saluto," Professor Keller picked up his books...
Organized by Colonel Herman Beukema, professor of economics, government and history at West Point (see p. 56), the new educational program will run for two months, enable soldiers to hear such observers as Raymond Clapper, Hanson W. Baldwin, Carl Crow, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Since part of the course will be a day-to-day interpretation of current events, maps are being installed in soldiers' day rooms on which shifting battles can be checked and charted...