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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island the sites were covered with stinging nettles and wild parsnip; over burial sites elderberries were common. One site at Uyak Ray was covered every year with handsome forget-me-nots, the only ones found in the region. Monkshood and fireweed were other prominent indicators of sites...
...year by year the menswear trade doggedly fights to infect its customers with the same virus of fashion and change prevalent among women. Rare are their successes. Last week it looked, however, as though they had succeeded with cuff links. Hickok Manufacturing Co. (men's accessories) announced triumphantly: "American men have bought more cuff links in the last four months than they bought in the previous four years." Other cufflink makers told the same story: Swank Products Inc. that it was selling ten times as many cuff links as it was a year ago; Krementz & Co. that its cufflink...
THIS IS MY STORY-Eleanor Roosevelt-Harper ($3). Offered as "probably the most fearless and revealing of all modern autobiographies," this one is also remarkable for the fact-rare among wives' memoirs-that it contains nothing to embarrass the husband. First published serially in The Ladies' Home Journal (TIME, March 8), and now among the ranking bestsellers, This Is My Story is told without literary pretensions. Several cuts above her columnist style, but with the familiar homely, philosophical asides, This Is My Story traces Mrs. Roosevelt's successful struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, a social conscience, against...
From many parts of the world, field collections were presented to the herbarium, as follows: 249 ferns of Cuba: 118 plants of Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered...
Socialites and dance-lovers, wandering this week through eight big galleries in Rockefeller Center's International Building, found rare things in rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs...