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...another "living fossil" and it's not a member of the faculty. A report published by Harold J. Coolidge, Assistant Curator of Mammals, in the Harvard Museum Monograph today, indicates that the specimen of a wild ox or kouprey presented to the museum last year is an entirely new genus close to the ancestral line of modern domestic cattle...
...paper reports an estimate of only about one thousand head of kouprey still surviving in the forests of southern Indo-China, which means that this scientifically important genus will probably become extinct unless immediate government protection is provided...
...kouprey is the first new genus of large living mammal to be discovered since the Okapi was found by Sir Harry Johnston in the Belgian Congo...
...there are the big producers, who like to play poker and polo. Intrepid and hard-working Ouida Rathbone is leader of an amorphous salon of her own, and she managed to bag a specimen of nearly every Hollywood social genus for her party...
...space is being devoted to the quite difficult problem of keeping one's balance. Jitterbugging is hard work--vaguely like a track meet. Seems to me that the dreamy-eyed couples floating along to Guy Lombardo's dulcet strains have much more opportunity for sex, unadulterated, than does the genus jitterbug...