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...drainage. A more recent short run problem has been the happy hunter who blasts away and, to his later regret, destroys one or more Grus americana. The most immediate problem facing the whooping crane is unfolding at the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans, where Josephine, a splendid female whooper, has just laid two eggs (referred to as a "clutch"). Since breeding wild in west-central Canada is a slow and dubious process at best, zoo breeding is a major hope of whooping crane lovers. It has been discovered that if the clutch is stolen, the female crane will...
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Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits Pappy") O'Daniel, radio whooper and flour salesman, last week further differentiated his new career as Governor of Texas from that of other Governors by granting to a chair-condemned murderer a 30-day reprieve for an unusual reason. Governor O'Daniel, reprieved Negro Murderer Winzell Williams, who killed a 63-year-old white dairyman, because, said the Governor, few punishments could be worse than "to see certain death staring you in the face day & night for 30 days." When Texans protested his cruelty, Governor O'Daniel explained he sought to arouse...
...Harvard Types" is continued by Louis How in an overdrawn and at the same time rather weak sketch of "Harry Whooper." It is to be hoped that those outside the college who read the "Types" will not think that they really do describe typical Harvard men. There are three "College Kodaks." The first and last are poor, while the second is very pretty. "My Wall Paper" is a pleasant story by Knoblauch. "A Long Time to Wait" is one of the best things that Chamberlin has written this year. It is a rather pathetic story and is very well done...
...slang. If we were for a moment to analyze the character of Harvard conversation we would find that slang, if we may so term it, has become a constant quantity in all that we say. Professors "cut" and students "crib." We elect "soft" or "stiff" courses. We get a "whooper" or "plucked" in consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall it be when the instructor says "Doncherknow?" or when we meet a friend who declares that "this...