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Twosomes--Lynford Lardner, Jr. 37(H) defeated Berry (W), 1 up; Mansfield Brannigan '36 (H) defeated Schwab (W) 3 and 1; Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36 (H) defeated Porter (W) 3 and 2; William E. Sibley, III, '35 (II) defeated Dodge (W) 3 and 2; Swan (W) defeated George E. Enos '37 (H) 1 up; Charles S. Bellows '37 (H) defeated Huston...
...since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included in an exhibition of extinct birds by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, coupled with a warning that, without rigid safeguards, three more North American birds are threatened with imminent annihilation: the trumpeter swan, the whooping crane, the ivory-billed woodpecker...
...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...
President emeritus Lowell and his colleagues are singing their swan song of privilege by opposing the child labor law, and Harvard professors will be eligible for benefits from the Townsend Plan if it does not do better by them than it has done by its scrub-women...
...Advancement of Science, Dr. Thorndike is famed for researches in industrial, educational and animal psychology, is reputed to make use of everyone he encounters as research material. Dr. Thorndike found that his numerous subjects, asked to judge by sound alone, preferred such words as harmony, ma donna, resolute, serene, swan to such others as belch, waddle, stink and wart. But when the human sounding-boards were confronted with nonsense words there was no marked preference...