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...measure their chests, heights, weights. Those with the broadest, flattest chests were the biggest and heaviest. Since reaching that conclusion, Dr. Weisman collected the school grades of 15,000 of the children and found that the biggest, broad-chested ones made the best grades. The narrow, pigeon-chested ones, even when they were sturdy, were the poorest students...
Died. Spike, 17, next-to-last surviving carrier pigeon to have served the A. E. F. during the War; of old age; at Fort Monmouth. N. J. The survivor, one-eyed, 18-year-old Mocker, holds the Distinguished Service Medal...
...last survivor of the race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included...
Although the proposed legislation may or may not be pigeon-holed, it is significant as another example of high handed governmental procedure, and is said to be favorably regarded by the administration. Certainly the bill must be strenuously resisted, unless the people are willing to have it forced down their throats. It is well to remember in connection with the governmental attempt to invade the territory of private business, that Public Utilities Commissions have been set up in the public interest and may be made more effective. Further, consumers may compel the commission to fix "fair" rates (usually...
THINGS TO LIVE FOR-Francis Stuart- Macmillan ($2.50). Disconnected chapters from the life of the mystical young Irish author of Pigeon Irish, The Coloured Dome...