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...forward to his experience with the bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...
...Thomas Parr, a Shropshire lad, who lived, by his own unauthenticated and undocumented account, almost 153 years, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and of Dr. William Harvey. The Anatomical Examination to which TIME refers was Harvey's report of an autopsy performed upon Parr by order of the King, Charles I ... Many books of general reference mention Parr. His outstanding honor in comtemporary literature is his appearance on page one of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
...attend to some politicking. While there, Churchill was entertained by the local Liberal Party campaign chairman, a wealthy Jewish cotton merchant named Nathan Laski. No one seems to remember whether he met Laski's 13-year-old son, a bright-eyed, dark-haired lad named Harold Joseph...
Novelist Goudge's first concern is to stake out a field of action on some safe old ground, and stock it with standard breeds of characters. First she introduces Mr. Midshipman Anthony Louis Mary O'Connell of the British navy around 1800, a lad with "delicate lips and flaring nostrils . . . of a startled horse." Anthony deserts ship after being spread-eagled in the rigging for two hours. Ashore he meets Stella Sprigg, a girl whose "swift graceful movements were those of ... a faun or gazelle . . ." They fall in love, but Anthony, flaring his nostrils, rejoins the navy...
...Hart, 21, an end for Notre Dame, won the Maxwell Memorial Trophy award as college football's player of the year. Although he still has two more games to play, rival pro leagues were bracing to bid for the tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), rugged (252 lbs.) lad from Turtle Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though it were...