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Most remarkable, though less authentic, is the refusal of the infant St. Nicholas to take his milk on Fridays, though the palm must be awarded to St. John the Evangelist whose pre-natal obeisance to Christ is a commonplace of medieval legendry...
...have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with extinction. Dr. William Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoological Park, sent a protesting cable last week to C. F. Clarkson, chairman of the Game Advisory board of Natal. He urged the adoption of more scientific methods in the control of sleeping sickness. Similar complaints have already been made to South African authorities by Kermit Roosevelt and President Madison Grant of the New York Zoological Society...
...Natal-Dakar. Although the South Atlantic has been flown many times from east to west, the eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...
...Shanks' biography traces Bandelaire's life and work from his pre-natal influences to the grave. Every step of the way the author follows the guidance of Baudelaire's poems or letters. The biography has the ring of authenticity on every page, a the same time it has all the freshness and realism which the most careless member of the ultra-modern biographical school can boast...
...epigrammarian who will say: living is earning a living? Or where is that educator who will say: we are speculating with amorphous clay which will not come to life until we give it the power to earn a daily wage? To consider the college years as a pleasant pre-natal period before the first plunge into the outer air is as useless as to consider life merely as the brief interlude before an immortality. The same elements exist in college that exist in the earning weld...