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...have one of her own almost as soon as the film was finished. Cinemactress O'Sullivan undertook the role three and a half months before her child was expected, finished the job with only a month to spare. Cameraman Leonard Smith shot Miss O'Sullivan behind fern fronds, through leafy screens, at respectful distances, permitted his camera to drop no hint of her own infanticipation...
...members of the Geological Department are on field trips in Central and South America. Professor Graton assisted by Oscar Gerald, has flown to Fern to study copper deposits at Cerro de Pasco mines. At the same time Professor McLaughlin is working on the west coast of Mexico, surveying for sliver and gold mines...
...Washington should see a dinosaur ambling through Rock Creek Park, they would be surprised. Logically they should be just as surprised at the ginkgo trees, imported from China, which actually grow in large numbers in Washington. The ginkgo or "maidenhair tree" (so called because its leaves resemble maidenhair fern) is a member of the gymnosperms, most primitive of seed plants, and is a relic of the Age of Reptiles, 150,000,000 years...
...four members in this distinguished French academic society. Rand and Charles R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Emeritus, are now colleagues in the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of the Institut; and Professors George D. Birkhoff '05, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Philippe-Jules-Fern-and Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature, are members of other academies of the Institut...
...origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child's father. Variously called Fougere ("Fern"), La Foret, and plain Jean Jacques, the pampered child learned stalking tricks near his Nantes home. After brief study of painting under Classicist David, he was sent to America, where he devoted himself to sketching wild life, playfully at first, later so earnestly that he spent many years in almost incredible...