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...lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming to the surface periodically for air, they can live in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water; when the water disappears during dry spells, they can survive for long periods buried in the mud, not eating, hardly breathing. Physiologist Homer William Smith of New York University, recounting in Natural History last week the case of the canned lungfish shipped to Chicago, said that lungfish have been observed to live four years without food?the longest authentic fast known to scientists in all the animal kingdom...
Century ago Colonel Claude Crozet, curly-haired, black-whiskered soldier of Napoleon, State Engineer of Virginia, became first president of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute. On November 11, 1839, 32 cadets were admitted to the new school. The contractor had not finished building the barracks, and snow had fallen before he was through. Food was scarce. The cadets decided to go home. If they had, V. M. I. would not have celebrated its centennial last week...
...year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings to a blackened shell...
...Buenos Aires last week tall, tea-colored José Santos Gollan, professor of journalism at the University of La Plata, had given prizes to the New York Times and the Minneapolis Journal, it would have been the exact reverse of a ceremony that took place in Manhattan. Instead, La Prensa of Buenos Aires, El Comercio of Lima, Peru, got the awards. And Professor Gollan (who is also Sunday editor of La Prensa) received them with Dr. Luis Miro Quesada, president of the board of El Comercio...
Innumerable were the feats which won La Prensa its prize. For La Prensa is more than a newspaper: it is an institution worthy to rank with The Times of London (which it resembles) or the New York Times. Because of its exhaustive foreign coverage (La Prensa prints probably more cable news than any other daily) it has been called one of the ten greatest newspapers in the world. Beyond question it is Latin America's greatest...