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...Shafer had had a full, busy career as professor of physiology at Stanford University. On the first morning of the college year after "Emeritus" was added to his former title, Professor Shafer, feeling lonely and at loose ends, wandered into his beehouse. There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about. In a matter of minutes Shafer's admiration was aroused and he found a new and absorbing interest...
Nine years later, old Professor Shafer published a sprightly brief of his findings : The Ways of a Mud Dauber (Stanford University Press; $2.50), a slender (74 pp.) book telling what he learned about Sceliphron cementarium during several happy summers. The volume is dedicated to a crippled mud dauber, "Crumple-Wing," of which Shafer was especially fond...
George E. Lee 3L and George J. Zazas '47 3L of the Choate Club defeated their opponents, Rhodes J. Lockwood, Jr. 3L and Milton A. Dauber 3L of the Mentschikoff Club, in the final round of the Ames Competition last night...
...Zazes based their arguments on the right of the union to freedom of speech and cited anti-injunction laws to point up their appeal for a reversal of a lower-court decision restraining the union from picketing. Lockwood and Dauber, for the company, claimed that the union was trying to force their clients out of business and was therefore not entitled to the protection of the laws in its picketing activities...
...years as editor-owner of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette he had been more widely quoted, perhaps, than any other U.S. editor. Balloon-pricker, dauber of stuffed shirts, kindly philosopher, booster of the good, of Kansas, of Kansans, and of the Republican Party, Will White had been a solid force in the U.S. on the side of good will...