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Even schoolboys know that birds mate in the spring, but even a bright schoolboy could hardly tell why. Biologist James C. Perry of Cincinnati's Xavier University, no schoolboy by a long shot, was convinced last week that it is not so much the flowers that bloom in the spring as what birds eat that affects their mating cycle. Other investigators had advanced the theory that increased exposure to sunlight in the spring is the sex stimulus. This theory they checked experimentally by inducing sex gland activity with artificial illumination. It looked as if the light stimulated the front...
Arthur Scott died in 1927 and his place was taken by his Swarthmore fraternity-mate, Thomas Bayard McCabe, who went to work for Scott in 1915 at $10 a week, became its star salesman. Son of a Delaware banker, President McCabe joined with First Vice President Edward S. Wagner in buying out the Scott interest. They now hold about one-sixth of the stock. President McCabe handles sales; Vice President Wagner, operations and finance. They limit themselves to salaries...
...will have as his ticket mate (for Governor) Lawyer Payne H. Ratner of Parsons, an energetic friend of Alf ("Fire Belly") Landon and Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. Senator McGill's mate will be Governor Walter Huxman, whose renomination was unopposed, whose campaigning ability is not superlative. To Democrats, the defeat of "intolerant" Mr. Winrod and nomination of able Mr. Reed may well presage Senator McGill's downfall...
...money-making pictures of the year, which grossed a total of nearly $2,000,000. Star of Three Smart Girls and two subsequent Universal hits is blithe, bouncing, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Suspecting that it needed, if not another Durbin, at least a running mate of comparable calibre, Universal acquired one, with the same lucky initials, in the noteworthy French person of 21-year-old Danielle Darrieux (Mayerling). The Rage of Paris introduces Mlle Darrieux to English-speaking audiences, is a frothy comedy designed to capitalize both her talent for wearing expensive clothes and her as yet imperfect English...
...assistant cook dry the dishes. A passenger announced she would pay $500 to have the captain beaten up. The assistant cook discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team. The chief engineer left for the Nome gold fields, and on Christmas, after gifts had been exchanged, the mate blacked a steward's eye, whereupon another steward stabbed the one whose eye was blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush...