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...made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term for a "bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes...
Almost every College publication, past and present, is represented on the new board. Barton is president of the Advocate, Larrabee is secretary of the Lampoon, as well as Class Odist, and Solomon wrote for the now-extinct Progressive. Kaufmann is assistant editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, Moskin is managing editor-elect, and Lazrus is a member of the photographic board. Swift served as literary editor of the 1944 Red Book...
...Specimens of such extinct creatures as the great auk, the Labrador duck, the sea mink; and the only Townsend's bunting (a bird) ever found in hand or in bush...
...Tanning chemicals more efficient than traditional tanbarks, which are increasingly scarce as U.S. imports are cut off and blighted U.S. chestnut trees (a major source) are becoming extinct...
...Appointed urbane, forthright Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 59, now chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, as director of a new war agency: The Office of Defense Transportation (see p. 60). ODT supplanted the last vestige of the now-extinct NDAC, the first defense organization set up by the President in May 1940. Out of a job (unless he accepts a post under Eastman) was Rail Coordinator Ralph Budd, exponent for 19 months of the theory that the railroads are ready. ODT's Eastman will boss rail, motor, inland waterway, coastal & intercoastal transport, and pipelines...