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...British Foreign Office used to handle in a way to make every loyal subject feel smug with satisfaction. In a House of Commons buzzing with expectant indignation last week Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon arose to say with an ominous restraint which would have made a Turkish Sultan quail: "The attention of the Turkish Government is being drawn to the gravity of the slaying of a British officer by Turkish soldiers...
Peering into the refrigerator of Atlanta's swanky Piedmont Driving Club. Georgia's Game & Fish Commissioner found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta...
...five of the country's top dogs were entered but only 14 finally started, the smallest number ever to compete for the $1,500 stake. Ten dogs were withdrawn at the last moment and one, the famed pointer Schoolfield, only dog ever to win three great stakes on quail, pheasant and prairie chicken, died suddenly of ptomaine poisoning. For a generation the national championships have been run over the broad acres of Col. Hobart Ames's plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn. Tall, old Col. Ames this year had new stories to tell his guests about the curious cherry...
...Sennacherib (TIME, Jan. 1). Last month he went to Manhattan to receive from the hands of a special messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns of marks resembling quail tracks. To learned eyes these cuneiform inscriptions revealed the names and dates of 95 Assyrian kings. Staffmember Gordon Loud of the Iraq expedition turned up the tablet beneath rubbish in the palace of Sennacherib's father, Sargon II, at Khorsabad. Sargon and Sennacherib ruled Assyria seven centuries before Christ. Names...
...without limit on season, bag or sex. Many a new York farmer is doing a nice business at $6 to §15 per gun per day. Texas, where gamewise farmers have been compensated for nine years, this year has 3,700.000 privately-owned acres open to hunters of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys. The gunner pays the farmer not more than $4 a day or 25^ per acre per season. Georgia's game commission has begun sending out lists of game farms. - Nebraska and Colorado have a scrip scheme whereby hunters pay farmers one coupon for each bird shot...