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...Ornithologist Charles E. Gillham of the Biological Survey in Washington has trekked into northern Canada, to ask natives questions about the Ross's goose. It was suspected that their breeding ground was somewhere near the mouth of the Perry River, which runs into the Arctic Ocean at Queen Maud Gulf, southeast of big Victoria Island. Last summer Gillham chartered a plane, flew over the Perry River region, saw so many of the birds that he was certain the breeding grounds were there. But floating ice in the bay prevented a landing...
...GREAT MISTAKE-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Maud Wainwright, money-dripping widow of the Cloisters, is bedeviled by a neighborhood crowd of dastardly ex-husbands and bitchy ex-wives. Plenty of murder...
...also maps of Dublin bridges, harbors and airdrome, a box containing $20,000 in U. S. money. The parachute, Held explained, had been left by a German named Heinrich Brandy, who had stayed at his house after arriving from the sky. The second suspect, Mrs. Iseult Stuart, daughter of Maud Gonne (see p. 76), wife of an aviator now living in Berlin, was charged with providing civilian clothes to a 'chutist and concealing...
...into the Baltic and "a home port," from Murmansk. The 8,000-ton Johannlschulte, one of 16 other German refugees at Murmansk, was less lucky. In a blizzard and raging sea somewhere off Trondheim, she lost her propeller, foundered. Her crew of 36 was rescued by the Norwegian Queen Maud...
Tall, grey Richard Lee Strout, Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, and editor of Maud, 1939 non-fiction bestseller, is well and widely acquainted in the Capital. Correspondent Strout even knows inaccessible, flinty, old (77) James Clark McReynolds, lonesome last conservative on the U. S. Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 4). Last week Newshawk Strout, striding through last-minute Christmas shopping, encountered the hawk-faced Justice in a toy store off Pennsylvania Avenue. After an exchange of season's greetings, Reporter Strout probed: buying gifts for others? No, said Justice McReynolds-a gift for himself. To a clerk...