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...great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east...
Last spring soft-spoken Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Collier's pondered Hidalgo's startling growth. Soon he despatched Writer Owen P. White, oldtime Texan, to be Hidalgo's historian. Writer White was amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager...
...Douglas Ludlow Elliman, potent Manhattan realtor, through whom (Douglas L. Elliman & Co.) or his competitor-brother (Lawrence B. Elliman of Pease & Elliman Inc.) many a smart Manhattanite obtains his abode, returned from a European yachting trip, reported on the foreign housing situation. His points: in London the trend is toward private homes; apartments ("flats") are "a drug on the ma-ket." In Paris, Athens, Belgrade, Milan and many another continental city, the opposite is true. The co-operative apartment idea has "taken" in Paris...
...bigger than ever, it was noted that the House of Representatives in the next Congress will include a Negro, Oscar De Priest of Chicago. Also, it will contain seven women, four who were re-elected and three Ruths (see p. 11). It will also have a newspaperman, Louis Ludlow, of Indianapolis, onetime Washington correspondent, but there will be no Socialist since Wisconsin's Berger was defeated...
Raymond John Dodge '31 of Melrose Highlands, David Cabot Forbes '31 of Milton, James Lester Madden '31 of Boston, and Ludlow Whitaker Stevens '31 of Tuxedo park, New York, were elected to the Business Board...