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Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
...genius is 19-year-old Charles de Ravenne, a retired child actor and self-taught painter. Artist de Ravenne was once described by the now defunct Hollywood Highlights as "a slight youngster with the 'artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
...University was hunting six precocious, prodigious students, aged from 13 to 15, whom he would admit as freshmen next September (TIME, Feb. 22). President Scott cited a number of wunderkinder whom he would like to see matched under modern conditions. He announced he would get high school superintendents to ferret them out. But much to everybody's surprise it took no ferreting. By last week President Scott had received 100 letters of application, from every State in the land...
...withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though I were sitting...
...find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy "are afraid of the warm-hearted irresponsibility of their lay constituents-perhaps also of their own better natures." It was to ferret out the cause of denominational failure to cooperate that Mr. Douglass made his search into antipathies. Besides discovering the above scale of Protestant general aversions, he found that Protestants would just as soon marry Roman Catholics as Jews, but preferred Jewish or Catholic spouses to Mormons, atheists, Buddhists or Mohammedans. However...