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...travel to save the energy of men & mounts until the scene of battle is reached, just as racehorses are vanned to meets. The actual ''marching" time was three days; on foot it would have taken six days. The horses rode eight to a trailer, standing sidewise with hay to munch in their traveling stalls which soldiers had built for them out of the Fort Bliss junkyard...
...which last fortnight erupted on its protuberant belly (TIME, Aug. 14). Washington's Naval Observatory, their snorts made it appear, had not kept the spot under observation for a seemly length of time after Astronomer John Edwin Willis sighted it. The British Astronomical Association said that one Will Hay, music-hall comedian and amateur stargazer, had spotted the spot 26 hours before Astronomer Willis saw it. The Potsdam Astro-Physical Laboratory said that Dr. Weber, Reich Bureau of Standards physicist, had spotted the spot one hour before Comedian Hay. Impression created was that both the Potsdam Laboratory...
...field between the house and the road, the wheat had come up and been harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical eye of Squire Franklin D. Roosevelt last week when he returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised...
Author Wodehouse married in 1914 (Mrs. Ethel Rowley), has a daughter, smokes pipes, loves golf, plays bridge by ear. Other books: Leave It to Psmith, The Inimitable Jeeves* Summer Lightning, Big Money. With Guy Bolton, Jerome Kern. George Grossmith and Ian Hay he has done more than two dozen stage comedies among .them A Damsel in Distress, Baa, Baa Black Sheep, Kissing Time...
...Making hay out of green cotton stalks was Chemist Hand's idea. Hay is good in proportion to its content of crude protein fat and carbohydrates. Chemist Hand subjected young cotton stalks to analyses, found them even richer than alfalfa...