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...HALL ROE...
Princess Elizabeth, achasing the wild deer and following the roe in the glens around Musselburgh, Scotland, bagged a twelve-point stag...
...like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...
...purchaser, the Hawker Siddeley Co. of London, which controls many of Britain's biggest aircraft concerns (e.g., A. V. Roe, Hawker Aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth), will continue to make the Lincoln bomber,* reportedly will switch to the Tudor, the civilian version of the Lincoln, after the war. The company has also agreed to maintain an undisclosed level of employment at the Canadian plant, set up a completely integrated aircraft industry in Canada, including research and development...
Comedian Fred Allen was willing for radio to dredge up new writers ("Most radio favorites are only mouths spawning the brain-roe of tired little men . . .") but was sourly suspicious of radio-born comedians: "A comedian who has had only radio knows only the reactions of transient mobs, who float from program to program posing as audiences, and tends to gear his antics [to] this moronic element, forgetting the millions of intelligent listeners...