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...name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant Bay (off Lynn, Mass.) could be rechristened to immortalize the omni- present Lydia by changing it to Tinkham Bay.' 'Bromo Seltzer River' . . . for the Patapsco River at Baltimore...
...Thomas Ross, civilian pigeon expert for the U. S. Army Signal Corps stationed at Fort Monmouth, N. J. was a worried man. His favorite bird, Molly Pitcher, was missing. He had sent her to the pigeon flying at Chattanooga, Tenn., Kentucky Derby of U. S. pigeondom. Loosed there from Lookout Mountain, she had failed to fly home. Ross was sure she knew the way (600 mi.), and of the 500 war couriers under his care, she is one of the fastest. Last year in the Grand National race at Danville, Va., she was second...
...Rapidan camp for a Friday-to-Monday week-end went the President and 17 guests. Discussed: municipal problems of Washington. It was hot. The President climbed a lookout tower to watch forest fires along the tindery blue ridge...
...acreage reduction. Before they left Washington they solemnly warned wheat producers that ahead of them lay seven lean years with "world wheat prices . . . appreciably lower than in the last seven years" (TIME, July 14). Secretary Hyde, comparing himself with Paul Revere, declared: "We are posted as sentries on the lookout towers to see what is coming. We would be derelict in our duty if we didn't warn the farmers...
Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his lawns. Finding guests used this more than they did his $340,000 regular course, he made improvements. Tunnels, bunkers, miniature traps were added. Then he invented a putting green made of cotton seed hulls, sure to wear long and well...