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...must henceforth paste on his hunting license, recognized a familiar touch. About the size of a special delivery stamp, it showed a male and female mallard coming to rest on some marshland. It was drawn by one of the nation's best cartoonists and its first anseriformiphile, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who last March became chief of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey (TIME, March 26). Postoffice officials expect it to become a collectors' item...
Perhaps prophetically, the stamp ducks look a little plumper than the ones which "Ding" used to put in his conservation-propagandizing cartoons. He hopes the proceeds from the stamp sale will help fatten all the wild ducks in the land. Said he last week: "No one is under any obligation to kill a duck just because he owns a Federal hunting stamp, nor is there any rule to prevent a man who wants to help restore the migratory waterfowl from purchasing several of these duck-saving stamps. Every dollar will be devoted to the cause of conservation...
...Moines, on a hillside overlooking the Raccoon River, closets and drawers were being emptied, suitcases and trunks were being packed. The stir & bustle presaged a local milestone. After 28 years during which he had won nation-wide fame as the Des Moines Register's syndicated cartoonist, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling was going to live in Washington. Week before another onetime Des Moines citizen, Secretary Wallace, had called him to head the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey. Manhattan publishers who have made him. many a fancy offer to go East raised their eyebrows at "Ding...
...second chukker opened with Tommy Davis scoring again for the Crimson and a fast shot by Davey, Princeton No. 2, to add to the excitement of the ding dong scoring. Harvard's galloping No. 1 then scored, and the number on the score board again went up under the Harvard plate with a backhander by Davis to end the half 4-3 with Harvard on the long end of the scoring...
Dudley Millikin, of the Candlewood team was the outstanding player on older men's team, making the majority of the scores. The battle was close throughout the chukkers, there being ding-dong scoring during the greater part of the game...