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...Loon's breezy mnemonic method of imparting knowledge he explains earthquakes by a pile of books, what is happening to the earth's surface by half-a-dozen clean handkerchiefs, the central Spanish plateau with a soup plate, two saucers and a spoon. The inner workings of the Gulf Stream, the puzzle of which is latitude and which is longitude, are other mysteries brightly revealed...
...Washington are generally arranged as vacation trips. A ten-day wild life survey by three Senators (Nevada's Pittman, Connecticut's Walcott, Missouri's Hawes) with their salaried assistants cost $1,983,67. Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75?...
...nine months babe & chimpanzee were inseparable. They quarreled occasionally, but not often. Together they learned to wear shoes, eat with a spoon, drink from a glass, use a rake & hoe, untie a slipknot. When the chimpanzee was scolded it cried like a baby. Soon both learned to understand a few words. At first the chimpanzee understood better than the baby. When Dr. Kellogg left the room the chimpanzee remembered for 30 minutes which door he used; the child forgot after five minutes. When Dr. Kellogg called, the chimpanzee was the first to answer...
...TIME, Jan. 25, you state that the Crown Prince Asfaou Ouossan, 15, in England, speaks no English, attacked bacon & eggs with a spoon, etc. Wrong again. Your information "spells" French-like. The Prince's name is "Asfa Wassan" in English. He is 16, speaks English (likely better than any English prince speaks Amharic). American quite fluently, French better, interested in many things other than bicycles, and is quite familiar with the use of knife & fork. ERNEST WORK...
...jewelry and clothes, including 21 pairs of shoes. The Prince collected bicycle catalogs, conferred lengthily in his suite with cycle salesmen on pneumatic tires and coaster-hubs, developed a fondness for English porridge, consuming three servings of the latter at breakfast before bacon & eggs which he attacked with a spoon...