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Officials of Chicago's suburban Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District know the difference between a mosquito drainage ditch and a hole in the ground. Furthermore, they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches...
...whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant a decade ago to "try an experiment in character-building" and discharge her servants...
...Winner by a split second in the closest finish in Thompson Race history was Pilot Rudy A. Kling in a mosquito-nosed, Menasco-motored Folkerts monoplane which just nosed out Earl Ortman's Keith Rider at an average of 256.9 m.p.h. This was seven miles slower than Michel Detroyat's world record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize...
...Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *"In the Spring," Overture Goldmark *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *Hungarian Dances, No. 5 and No. 6 Brahms *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Framingham State Teachers College Glee Club (with orchestra) *"Maytime," Selection Romberg *Mosquito Dance White *Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably be the greatest disaster in the history of the world...