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...Natural History's Curator of Entomology; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Lutz gathered some 2,000,000 specimens of insects for his museum, discovered:1) that insects respond to ultraviolet light beyond human vision, can thus be trapped if harmful; 2) that the male cricket pitches his woo at the third D above high...
...Work, No Woo. "Vow Girls," 350 female employes in the yard, have signed a pledge not to date any Albina man who has not perfect job attendance for the week...
...Lake keeps the work in the family. His present wife (he met her in a California hospital, where he was recovering from rabbit fever) is his office assistant. The moving spirit of "No Work, No Woo" is a 23-year-old brunette ex-Hollywood model, Jeannine Christiansen, a daughter by his first marriage. She is a $1.32-an-hour plate burner on the graveyard shift, and by turning down a date from a shiftless worker gave her father his catchiest anti-absenteeism campaign...
Perhaps the Germans were worried about Finland's recent overture to the Allies and wished to woo Helsinki with honors. Last week a New York Times correspondent cabled from Stockholm that Väino Alfred Tanner, potent leader of Finland's Socialist Democratic Party, and many another Finnish leader were now determined to sue for a separate peace with Russia...
...difficult task in regaining the Dominion's confidence. As Progressive-Conservatives under "Honest Jack" Bracken they have what may be their last opportunity. Party leaders expected to draft a platform that would: 1) attack the Liberal Party where it is most vulnerable (pussyfooting on basic war problems); 2) woo enough diverse support to capitalize on the expected post-war reaction to the present Liberal regime, As a starter, the party approved a four-point creed...