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Clipped. In Superior, Wis., Harry Griffin pleaded guilty to theft, explained that he thought the new price of $1 for a haircut must include the hair clippers...
Scientists have known for years that bats navigate by sonar. Like destroyers hunting down a submarine, they send out pulses of sound and steer by the echoes that bounce back from obstacles or prey. In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Dr. Donald R. Griffin of Cornell University adds some new details about bat navigation...
First step in bat study, says Dr. Griffin, is learning how to handle the bats themselves. Since they normally live on insects caught on the wing, they are hard to keep healthy in captivity. Luckily, they can be made to hibernate if they are put to sleep in a humidified refrigerator. When needed for experiments, they can be removed and thawed Out like frozen strawberries...
...story was wrong, he continued, except the part about the "baggy pants." The article, by Eugene Griffin, described the Student Outlines office as "a cluttered third floor space presided over by a man in baggy pants...
...both 1948 and 1949 Griffin also wrote a series of articles attacking the University as a "hotbed" of Communism...