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...time he was 7 he bred a pair which won a first prize. Then he took up mice. He inbred his first pair of mice, brown brother and sister, in 1909 when he was a Harvard junior, and has been inbreeding their progeny ever since. The herd accompanied him to Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. when he became assistant director of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution (1919), to Orono...
...Franklin Roosevelt graciously greeted a gathering of writers, critics and reporters last week at the Manhattan "editorial workshop'' of Philadelphia's Ladies' Home Journal. Momentarily lost in the bulky herd of Rockefeller Center office buildings, Mrs. Roosevelt had arrived a little late and out of breath at her own party. Its purpose was to inform the world that Ladies' Home Journal will appear next week with the first installment of "This Is My Story," Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt's autobiography. These memoirs were billed as the first ever -written by a First Lady while...
...Senator Royal S. Copeland, a vast herd of uninformed outsiders have heaped all blame for past crashes on the Bureau and the radio beams which it operates. Cowed by this abuse, Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal stalwartly defended his organization at the meeting but admitted it needed funds. The airline operators, equally cowed, shunted blame onto radio failure because of such weather conditions as rain static. The conferees got together on an eleven-point program of improvements for radio and the Bureau,* scuttled home. Scarcely had they settled down last week when there came another major crash about which...
...plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing in the burnt grass...
...when its buffalo were almost gone, the Canadian Government purchased a herd of 738 from Montana, established them in a 125,000-acre buffalo park near Wainwright, Alberta. The original 738 have since increased to some 23,000 and, despite scattering of specimens over Canada and the world, the Park herd requires a periodic thinning out. Warden Purshell was reducing a herd of 6,000. Buffalo meat is relished by Canadian gourmets, buffalo-hide overcoats esteemed by Royal Northwest Mounted Police...