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Last fortnight's obituaries of H. P. Re of Coldwater, Mich, said he had "the shortest name in the country." Immediately protests were made by Ed Py of Newcastle, Ind., Fin Ax of Indianapolis, J. Ur of Torrington, Conn., etc., etc. Then newshawks undertook to find out who really had the shortest name in the land. Baltimoreans dug up the name Tau-chun I, onetime Chinese medical student there, but they had forgotten that in China surnames come first. Winner last week seemed to be Aaron A, first name in the Chicago city directory...
Which was cause and which effect?the bump into the hill, the explosion, the fracture of the hull? A loss of a rudder? These questions remained unanswerable last week. Incendiary smoking by one of the party seemed, however, out of the question. Discovery of a control fin some distance away from the wreck in the woods seemed to point to what precipitated the final plunge. British and French flying experts hastened to the scene, to answer the multitude of whys, then asked Dr. Eckener to help...
Sirs: TIME is a great magazine, but mere greatness is no warranty against error or poor judgment. Even this peaceful village of New York Mills has been stirred to excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest...
...fish first appeared in hatchery nets twelve years ago, a chunky, gold-gleaming adult of 12 lb.† Hatchery men noticed a peculiar shining spot in front of her dorsal fin, named her Silverspot. Every year for ten years she was caught in Minnesota Lake waters, taken to the hatchery, stripped of her eggs and released. At one stripping she gave some 300,000 eggs...
...director of the hatcheries distinguished her among wall-eye pike by punching a hole in her tail fin in acknowledgment of her reproductive ability...