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...Deal conspiracy to "get'' him. Last week there was no evidence that his removal had in any way cooled the Government's ardor. To supplant the local U. .S. District Attorney as prosecutor, it had taken onetime (1930-33) National Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock away from his duties as president of St. John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett to preside. The Government registered 150 witnesses. Chief defense counsel was a local attorney named Hugh...
...Manhattan, a woodcock flew into a skyscraper's electric sign and fell outside an office window of the National Association of Audubon Societies...
...Crazy Woodcock...
...your account (TIME, Nov. 26) of the award to Dr. Urey of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry you mention "a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building" (of Columbia University). Are you sure it was a woodcock? That bird has some amazing traits, but the craziest among them would not, I believe, have been seen (much less captured) in such a foreign locality, even though the sill were old and wormy...
...crazy, but tired and stunned, was the woodcock which flew against a window of the Columbia chemical laboratory. It was rescued by Professor Arthur Warren Hixson, who identified it, took it home, let it tamp for worms in his garden until it had recovered strength to fly on. Professor Hixson has seen many another migratory bird at Columbia (hawk, merganser, sandpiper), believes they are attracted by the green of the campus, get lost among the buildings...