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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lark? In Knoxville, Tenn., firemen ministered to a pigeon which had eaten too many ripe cherries, fallen out of a tree...
...That man is truly ethical," he has written, "who shatters no ice crystal as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree, cuts no flower . . ." As a physician, Schweitzer calls himself "a mass murderer of bacteria," and says he cannot help thinking, when he peers into a microscope, "I have to sacrifice this life in order to preserve other life...
...close observation Beebe (who will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...
Dissenting in the Terminiello case. Frankfurter sarcastically chided the majority: "This is a court of review, not a tribunal unbounded by rules. We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency...
Died. Russell Doubleday, 77, author (A Gunner Aboard the Yankee, 1898; Tree Neighbors, 1940), editor (World's Work) and publisher (vice president, Doubleday & Co.); after brief illness; in Glen Cove...