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...road." John thanked her and went on his way. Five hours later, hot on his trail, the police spotted him chatting with two children at the edge of a wood near Arbor-field. The children ran away, and so did John. After a hectic chase across a meadow, the police recaptured their fugitive...
...whom whistling is an art, "not a parlor trick." Pat was a conscientious student. Says Mrs. Kennedy: she "could have had a real career in whistling if she'd kept on. She did beautiful bird work; her chirps were sure and fine. She was especially good on the meadow lark...
Plans for Central Park were laid just a century ago. Olmsted spent most of the rest of his life making the dream come true. His aim was "to complement. . . the beauty of the town [with] the beauty of the fields, the meadow, the prairie, of the green pastures and still waters." It was not easy. The region chosen for the park was an unsightly swamp laced with bald rock ridges and pimpled with squatters' shacks. To see it whole and make it new required optimism and an unwavering mind...
Minor Sport H--William H. Nichols, Jr., Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Glen M. Reem 2nd, Rochester, N.Y.; John J. Shea, Jr., Springfield Mass.; Paul Shuttleworth, Meadow-brook, Pa.; John M. Smith, Northampton, Mass.; Robert J. Guttentag, Manager, Detroit, Mich...
Still walking his daily mile across a Princeton meadow to the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein quietly approached his 72nd birthday. Looking more than ever like a benign, wise old sea lion, he was too busy working on new problems to take much note of the churning outside world which he has helped to change so much...