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...lone California Elephant Seal stands at the right of the entrance to the Zoological Museum. His epitaph reads: "the species has been reduced through persecutions, as it yields rich oil . . ." A Siberian Sea Otter looks out from the next glass case. "This species is now on the verge of extinction at the hands of the fur hunters...
Three generations of western Iowa farmers learned reading, writing and arithmetic at Otter Township's one-room Concord School. Next month, when schools all over Iowa reopen, Concord (which had only four pupils last term) will be closed. So will 1,700 other small Iowa schools, wiped out since 1941-and few Iowans will be sorry...
Snake meat was good for rheumatism, otter's liver for tuberculosis. For sore eyes, a fine salve could be made from bears' gall bladders. If dubious of such tried-&-true remedies, the ailing one shuffled down the street to get a heavenly diagnosis from an astrologer, or spiritual advice from one of the local fortune tellers. There was not much point, said the Chinese, in a foreign doctor coming to Changsha to open a foreign-style hospital...
...changed 48-year-old Bill McGovern much, except to restock his cornucopia of anecdotes. Starchy Admiral King got indigestion every time Commander McGovern entered the room, his Byronic profile rising proudly above a pair of dandruff-laden shoulders, his uniform scarred with gravy. (In civilian life, McGovern modeled an otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says he: "I lived in constant fear...
...third in Canada's history. The others: Sir Arthur William Currie, Sir William Dillon Otter, both of World...