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...western states (especially the Dakotas) that farmers call them "pests." > Hundreds of thousands of wild ducks have been saved by Coast Guard restrictions, lack of gasoline, fewer hunters. The wild duck population is thought to be the heaviest in years, is making farmers angrier by turning crop lands into "picnic grounds...
Sample case histories from the column: "I am 19. ... I foolishly trusted a man whom I met at a picnic. We talked of marriage. Later I found he was married. ... I no longer care for him. But what am I to do about our child? Added to that problem I have met a sailor from Boston who has fallen in love with me. . . . .Shall I have this baby and say nothing to the sailor? He does not know...
Decline, and Winter Flowering. Yeats was 60 now; broad and rather dandified with the black ribbon of his spectacles "falling like a bar across his face," he could no longer be compared, as malignant George Moore had once brilliantly compared him, with an old umbrella left behind at a picnic...
...remained kept on fighting in the best Japanese tradition, and U.S. forces still held only a small bite of the island. The departing Marines well knew that the Army had no picnic ahead, that it would be weeks or months before the U.S. could say it held even Guadalcanal, much less the Solomons, in military fee simple...
...been no picnic. His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains. The rest was not going to be a pushover, said Lieut. General George Kenney, the dynamic airman who shares MacArthur's bungalow, and squat Australian General Sir Thomas Blarney warned of possible hard fighting after Buna fell. General Kenney noted that the Japs still had planes they had not yet used, but Allied air superiority was such that a million pounds of food and ammunition had been dropped to MacArthur's fighters in the mountains...