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...scenes take up comparatively little footage in Sergeant York, they are above Hollywood standard. York's incredible exploit seems almost credible. Its bang-bang excitement is leavened with the salty observations of one of his men (George Tobias). Says he to a captured German officer while York is squirrel-shooting his way to victory: "Five'll get you ten that guy knocks off your whole sauerkraut army...
...Mount Vernon, N.Y., a squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) scampered across high-tension wires, caused a short circuit that broke a wire which fell on oil-soaked ties, starting a fire that held up traffic on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad for an hour...
Three years ago, at this time, the Cantabs were pleading for mixed swimming between Harvard and Radcliffe students in the Indoor Athletic Building's pool. And one nature lover had already opened his window one morning and invited a squirrel to breakfast on some unpopped popcorn, only to arouse the whole dormitory a few minutes later when he went dancing down the corridors trying to shake choose the squirrel which had tenaciously fastened his teeth on Shea's right index finger...
...lives with his wife, daughter of a Swedish immigrant family, and his doctor son Alvin Julius, in a narrow six-room house, cluttered with books and papers. From his house Dr. Carlson can see five grey squirrels who frisk in the back yard and even that stimulates his scientific mind. Last spring in Science he noted that a pregnant squirrel dug up old bones, gnawed them constantly. He suggested that someone experiment with squirrels' craving for bones and their physical need for calcium and phosphorus during pregnancy...
Forward of the squirrel cage was a lounge car for the "boll weevils" (local politicos); two diners (which became traveling nightclubs after the last speech of the day); a press lounge; car after car of reporters, cameramen, assorted camp followers. One of the most popular inhabitants of the train was Porter Foley, who could get there fustest with the mostest drinks. In one week he drew $40 in tips...