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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project so great as that envisioned by His Majesty can be compressed into an informal, friendly letter of reasonable length, but the encouraging lead which Leopold III gave to Premier van Zeeland was phrased in "the King's own hand" thus...
...single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last solenodon died, New York's Zoological Park has had the only one in the U. S. New York's solenodon, a female, is one of a pair purchased in Santiago, Santo Domingo. The price, $100 each, was really...
Dictator Stalin questioned Gromov at length, conferred with his aides, finally told the three airmen to go ahead. At dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making...
...golf is 262 by Percy Alliss of England, but this was made in the 1935 Italian Open over a diminutive course at San Remo which, only 5,200 yd. long, is 20% below U. S. championship standard. Lowest 7 2-hole score ever made in competition over a full length course has for the last eight years been famed Bill Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle...
INTEGRITY: THE LIFE OF GEORGE W. NORRIS-Richard L. Neuberger & Stephen B. Kahn-Vanguard ($3). First full-length biography of Nebraska's famed Senator, written from a viewpoint this side of idolatry, but only just...