Word: culross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price for contributors, and the magazine looked it. Ted Resting raised the rates to as much as $500 for stories and $400 for illustrations. He replaced the shopworn "Me and Joe went fishing" type of story with pieces by such writers as Louis Bromfield, George Sessions Perry and Donald Culross Peattie. He also took off on crusades (a current anti-pollution series is called Running Sores On Our Land), and hired a Washington correspondent to keep up with conservation news and legislation. As circulation rose, so did Ted Resting's salary; at 32, he gets $25,000 a year...
...DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE Santa Barbara, Calif...
Geography usually means a big bookful of maps and statistics behind which crafty schoolboys munch apples. But last week Ohio State University's Geographer Roderick Peattie, elder brother of rhapsodic Botanist Donald Culross Peattie (A Prairie Grove, Audubon's America, etc.), explained geography to grownups. Geography in Human Destiny presents geography as the study of fact-relationships, not of facts. Says Author Peattie: "What it is, is a correlation between sciences. ... If one must classify it, call it a philosophy." Geography, Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems...
AUDUBON'S AMERICA-Edited by Donald Culross Peattie-Houghton MifFlin...
Writes Biologist-Rhetorician Donald Culross Peattie: "What science calls for today are life histories and ecological studies. . . ." So, while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...