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GENESEE FEVER-Carl Carmer -Farrar & Rinehart...
Geraldine Farrar composed, directed and designed costumes for a Girl Scout Christmas pageant at Ridgefield, Conn. She also wrote a poem, The Christmas Donkey, led the singing of the national anthem...
Among members of the committee sponsoring the convention are: William Agar, Roger Baldwin '05, Ulric Bell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bruce Bliven, Van Wyck Brooks '08, David Dubinsky, Clark Eichelberger, Hon. Thomas H. Eliot '28, John Farrar, Carl J. Friedrich Professor of Government, Harry D. Gideonse, Hans Kohn, Max Lerner, Francis E. McMahon, William A. Neilson '99, Rex Stout, Herbert Bayard Swope, Sr., and Henry P. Van Dusen...
Goodspeed's addiction is chiefly botanical: he was hunting for new species of tobacco and other plants for the practical U.S. Department of Agriculture and for his own purer research at the University of California. He tells his adventures in a new book, Plant Hunters in the Andes (Farrar & Rinehart; $5). Like all scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke...
...BECOME EXTINCT-Will Cuppy, with illustrations by William Steig -Farrar & Rinehart...