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...California business, included Oilman Earl Gilmore, President P. G. Winnett of Bullock's department store, President Joe Crail of the Coast Federal Savings & Loan Association, Manufacturer K. T. Norris, Charles S. Howard, wealthy heir to an automobile fortune and socialite turfman, three members of the wealthy Los Angeles Rowan real estate family, and Civil Engineer Herbert Hoover...
...months ago, two U.S. Wildlife Service field men caused a flurry of excitement by reporting that they had spotted two cranes in the Northwest Territories. But there was no sure evidence of nesting. Last month Professor William Rowan, the University of Alberta's expert zoologist, got word that in the muskeg wilderness of northern Alberta an old Indian guide had seen two big, white birds. Rowan interviewed the guide and from his precise description identified the birds as whooping cranes...
...Rowan and two assistants eagerly searched the spot. They found the cranes' tracks-two sets of big, three-toed tracks, and to the right of each set another set of baby crane prints. Last week, after studying photographs and measurements of the tracks, Professor Rowan announced that the baby crane tracks gave proof that the area is a nesting ground for the whooping crane-the first found in Canada since 1922. Under the 1916 Migratory Birds treaty with the U.S., Canada's Wildlife Service is now bound to protect the area and do all it can to prevent...
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This was definitely not cricket. Last fortnight the South African Cricket Board, without explanation, fired Rowan from the team. Last week, while local sportwriters and cricket fans were demanding that the board break its stony silence, Rowan was planning to sue it for "smirching my good name." What's more, said he indignantly, "it's not cricket...