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...little insectivorous beast resembling the opossum, smaller but with a similar ratty tail and a limber prehensile snout. Zoologists know it as the family Solenodontidae, which has but a single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last solenodon died, New York's Zoological Park has had the only...
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr., methodical young mountain climber of Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America...
...Brain Trust in 1932, Judge Rosenman, unlike the Brain Trusters, kept out of the limelight. Last week Judge Rosenman was drafted, but again for a spot far from the limelight. After a conference with his friend Franklin Roosevelt, he packed himself off for a ten-week stay near Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks. His baggage was loaded with work. The President had given him the assignment of preparing the Roosevelt state papers, one volume telescoping four years as Governor, one volume for each of the first four years in the White House, the set to be published by Random...
...raise what you eat, you don't have to worry about money. We're the lucky ones. I get sorry for the city people. I come up here, and I see them sitting on the stoops, and no wonder they go wild when they lose a job. Mountain people are mountain people and they're different...
...these and Silburians' devious skill in putting two & two together-the Canon's increasing nervousness, physical resemblances, further note-comparing by returned English tourists-the news soon gets around. After hearing the Canon"s full confession (a mixture of contrition and lyricism about nude bathing in a mountain stream), Dean Mallinson makes a heroic effort to spike the gossip. For a time he thinks he has suc- ceeded. But when the gossip starts again, the Cathedral rocks with it. To save the Cathedral's honor, not Carmichael's soul, frightened Cathedral officials decide to send...