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...faint chirp of the airborne radio has been followed for only 25 miles, and the Navy has added little to its pigeon lore. But seagoing scientists have far more ambitious experiments in mind. Porpoises, another animal uncannily clever at navigation, will be fitted with larger transmitters in the hope of learning how the aquatic mammals set their course. Eventually, the Navy hopes, its little radios will signal defeat for an ancient enemy: the albatrosses (known as gooney birds) that nest by the thousands on Midway Island and make its runways dangerous for aircraft. Naval experts on bird migration suspect that...
According to Texas lore, the reason Dallas has one of the nation's busiest airports is that outbound jets are loaded with Texas businessmen heading for Wall Street to borrow money. The two most notable jet passengers from Dallas to New York last week-flying on separate planes to increase the odds that at least one of them would survive the trip-were bound on a different mission. John Dabney Murchison, 39, and his brother Clinton Williams Murchison Jr., 37, flew to Manhattan not as suppliants but as conquerors. In a coup that outdealt even the feats of their...
...Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot sail down the Mississippi with Davey. But down the Mississippi Davey does go, with his Uncle Jim, a cigar-smoking Civil War veteran and college man learned in the classic lore of "a number of deceased nuisances like Horace and Socrates and Pluto." Other passengers: Zeb, an old family detainer fond of saying "howsom-ever''; Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass, an engaging purveyor of something called Distilled Essence of Spooju (43% alcohol, 57% swamp water), who strikingly resembles...
...pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman. Snake Man neatly blends action and memory, talk and adventure, snake lore and Ionides lore...
...column." But last week, encouraged by the reader response to its new "column," the Free Press decided to go right on promoting Dr. Molner with his reluctant cooperation. Sending him another list of "public health" questions, the paper also assigned a reporter to crib more free Molner medical lore from the doctor's regular appearances on Detroit TV station WJBK and Detroit radio station...