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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, 81, father of the U.S. bird-sanctuary system, for 34 years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...
Barracks occupied by the Japs were foul. The marines rolled up their sleeves, scri-bbed, swept and disinfected. The Chinese cooperated. Mayor Chang Ting-erh broadcast orders to the citizens: "No gypping." The Red Cross took over the sturdily built German Club and made it into "the finest serviceman's club west of San Francisco...
...Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...
...thing Huey insisted on: he wanted a good medical school for L.S.U. New Orleans' proud, private Tulane University, which boasts one of the finest medical schools in the South, had refused Huey an honorary degree. Huey swore he would make Tulane look like "a little red school-house." In one year, right under Tulane's nose in New Orleans, Huey built a $1.5 million medical school. When everything else that Huey built came tumbling down, the L.S.U. Medical School stayed up. Under the conscientious administration of Dean Beryl Iles Burns it has kept its American Medical Association rating...
Herb Eckenrath, hailed as the finest passer in college, hooked up with Pete Foley to give the R.O.T.C. team a strong aerial attack, supplemented by a running game sparked by Gene Brannigan, and the dynamic combination exploded to the tune of three touchdowns in the second half...