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Anent the New Zealand egg story [TIME, Feb. 13]. No marvel to readers is the fact that bedridden Harold Ryder "set" on a chicken egg and succeeded in hatching it. Any constantly warm location would have done the same for said egg. The marvel lies in the fact that Mr. Ryder, who probably weighs between 100 and 200 pounds, was able to lie abed with an egg for 25 days and nights and not so much as crack the shell...
...Waikato, New Zealand, hospital, Harold Ryder got bored lying in bed. To while away the time, he asked for a fresh egg, "set" on it steadily for 25 days, hatched a healthy white Leghorn chick...
...Played biennially since 1924 in alternate countries by picked teams of amateurs. Ryder Cup matches were inaugurated in 1927, played biennially between U. S. and British professionals...
Died. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 42, onetime self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...
...Barbizon School of Painters; after long illness; in Old Lyme, Conn. "Miss Florence's" great grandfather and grandfather were both governors of Connecticut; her father was Captain Robert Griswold of the London packet Ocean Queen. Boarders in her stately, elm-shaded house in the early 1900s included Chauncey Ryder, Henry W. Ranger, Childe Hassam, Clark Voorhees, other U. S. Impressionists. Last year when she became too poor to keep her house, former New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert McCurdy Marsh bought it, gave her a free lease for life...