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When a flock of teal or broadbill flares past, most duck gunners would swear- especially if they have missed their shots- that the birds were moving 75 to 100 m. p. h. Last week May Thacher Cook, junior biologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, braved duck gunners' indignation. She announced that wild fowl speeds had been carefully paced by plane, automobile and timing device. Ducks and geese, said Biologist Cook, seldom have a higher cruising speed than 40 m. p. h. As far as she knew, the swiftest bird timed was a duck hawk which attained spurts...
...friendly professor interceded. He was allowed to work off his conditions as a classmate of quiet Calvin Coolidge in the Class of 1895. He worked his way through Columbia Law School. Six years later he had worked his way into a partnership with the Manhattan law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. His future was assured. Then people began to get him to do things for them...
Married. Miss Sarah Booth Thacher, daughter of U.S. Solicitor General Thomas Day Thacher; and George L. Storm of Greenwich, Conn.; at Watch Hill...
...Power Co. Seldom in the public prints, he was written up two years ago for conducting the "most expensive telephone call," London-New York, 95 min., $1,425. Slim, nonchalant, sandy-haired & freckled, Floyd Bostwick Odium studied law at University of Colorado, in New York started work with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett of Manhattan. In their office he became a close friend of George Henry Howard, seven years his senior. Just as Lawyer Odium left to take charge of the legal department of Electric Bond & Share, so, two years ago, Lawyer Howard left to become president of United Corp...
HARVARD BROWN Thacher, l.f. 3b., James Gleason, r.f. 2b., Heidlinger Ketchum, 3b. l.f., Lotquist Donaldson, 1b. 1b., Nilsson Jantzen, 2b. r.f., Snyder Snyder, s.f. s.s., Mullervy Dana, s.s. c., Lolordo Murmes, c. c.f., Morton Gorman, Taylor, Sprague or Lanier, p. p., Powley...