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Alas, the Eskimo Curlew. Most extreme of the Neo-Malthusian scare books is Vogt's Road to Survival. Vogt is an ornithologist, once editor of Bird Lore, who (to quote the book's jacket) "became interested in the relationship of man to his environment through his studies of bird behavior." Now chief of the Conservation Section of the Pan American Union, he still seems to care as much for "wildlife" (especially birds but including bighorn sheep) as he does for the .human species...
...learned ornithologist, who paid more attention to pass defense then Jane Russell, would have consumed three dozen 50--cent cigars in doleful contemplation of the Crimson's haplessness against the Columbia aerial attack...
Stripling: Why Mac, you're an ornithologist, aren...
...Gannon, today, may survey the Yale lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home to roost--Harlow is perhaps the greatest defensive innovator in American football. His so-called "looping" defense, where his line shifted toward be sideline and his backs in the other direction, took prewar Army intelligence three years to analyze in scouting reports...
That was in 1935. Since then, the ornithologist's charges have lost only one game to Princeton, a close...