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...Fruitful Life. Meanwhile John Okie enjoyed life. He traveled to Europe, brought back art objects for the Big Tepee, entertained lavishly. There were-and still are-deer and antelope, grouse, pheasant and duck to be hunted on the vast ranch. The tumbling creeks flash with trout. In 1930, aged 67, John Okie went hunting ducks along one of his irrigation reservoirs, slipped in and was drowned. The 57,500-acre empire of the Big Father declined...
...would be some city park that had beaver, chipmunks, and deer on the loose (like Brookfield, near Chicago, maybe). But, as it happens, Toronto's Algonquin Park (TIME, April 16) is about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
...afternoon of the Jubilee there will be a baseball game and tennis match with Worcester Tech at Soldiers Field, as well as a lacrosse match with Deer-field Academy...
...moths and other insects, but practically all invertebrates, especially crayfish; many minnows; some trout (those that ate poisoned insects); more than half of the snakes and frogs. It also damaged a few broad-leaved trees. But the census takers noted, with pleased surprise, that birds, chipmunks, mice, beaver and deer in the park were apparently unharmed...
...went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...