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...first morning of the college year after "Emeritus" was added to his former title, Professor Shafer, feeling lonely and at loose ends, wandered into his beehouse. There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about. In a matter of minutes Shafer's admiration was aroused and he found a new and absorbing interest in life. That...
Botts in Africa. This well-fed, big-sinewed Cat had grown from a kitten bred in 1904 by Ben Holt of Stockton, Calif. Some of the farms around Stockton were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with...
...dozen students came in tuxedoes one morning at 1 a.m. and said they were invited to a 'private' opening; I didn't let them in," Shean revealed as he ended his final stint last night. "The only outsider that's gotten past me during construction was a small gray kitten, but I've had some pretty close calls...
...Edward B. Smith (founder of the Edward B. Smith & Co. investment house, which later merged with Charles D. Barney & Co. to become Smith, Barney & Co.), Geoff Smith was born in the Kitten-house Square section, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation...
...have been turned into terraced grain fields. Said Farmer L. O. Page, who goes in for strip cropping: ''Every time it rained, I used to lie awake nights wondering what part of the farm would be washed away in the morning. These nights I sleep like a kitten. I know those meadow strips will catch and hold the water...