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...Frank Knox arrived one day last fortnight in Allentown, Pa. Having asserted within the week that Franklin Roosevelt was leading the U. S. toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people between liberty and security. . . . The present Administration has been for four years giving...
...material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each offender. Little of the drama of the Bounty's seizure makes its way through Dr. Mackaness' professorial prose. But the great story of Mate Fletcher Christian's attack on his captain, the subsequent travels of Bligh, the mutineers, the vessels searching for the Bounty, appears all the more astonishing when supported by charts of the voyages, detailed records of the fate of each outlaw, and accounts of the state of contemporary knowledge...
Firmly established is the Slye doctrine that susceptibility to cancer is inherited as a recessive Mendelian character, transmitted by a single gene. Resistance to the disease is a dominant character, and represses, but does not obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible one will have resistant offspring. But these offspring carry the susceptibility gene concealed in their germ plasm, and if they mate with susceptibles the second generation will be liable to cancer. The Slye mice show that not only inherited susceptibility but also some injury or chronic irritation is necessary...
Calliope's mate...
...called "must" (from the Hindu mast, meaning ruttish, intoxicated). Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote to famed Animal Collector Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who had supplied three of the cows, and both searched in vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because...