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...doesn't do something out of the ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic cop on his boat in Harlem are excellent sources for news stories...
...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...
...defense of ''Krum Elbow" as a real farm. Westmoreland Davis, onetime Governor of Virginia, now publisher of Southern Farm Magazine and proprietor of a 2.400-acre estate near Leesburg, had just returned from Hyde Park. Through the National Committee he declared: "On my visit I found a herd of Guernsey cattle, dairy and horse barns, poultry houses, a silo filled with corn ensilage, farm horses, hogs and over 600 laying hens. The fields were in corn, alfalfa and pasture. There's no pseudo silo and sunken garden. These are on an adjacent place owned by the family of the late...
Many of the lectures will be illustrated by films of collective insect, bird, and animal social life, some of them by courtesy of Martin Johnson, the explorer. Flocks of birds, herd life of mammals, and primitive ape communities will be carefully studied...
Miss Dockery's livestock used to stray over upon the "Glenburney" plantation. Once Miss Merrill was supposed to have shot into a herd of her goats. A strange "red, white & blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...