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...exhibit illustrates the famous controversy Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...
Nothing could be learned by last night as to whether a group of Undergraduates, who wish to withhold their names until after election, are going through with their plan of sending a bill to the city for "Damages, both Physicalle and Mentalle, incurred by ye Cambridge Municipal Officers, while attemptinge to dispersse a gathering of Students...
...once a month thought it his duty to deliver a sermon upon the terrors of hell, when he sternly dangled his congregation over the abyss; but being a humane man, he liked to finish on a gentler note. He used to conclude thus: 'Of course, my friends, ye understand that the Almighty is compelled to do things in His official capacity that He would scorn to do as a private individual.' "I am in the unfortunate position now of having no private capacity, but only an official one. I am unable to express my views upon any public...
...late, an outstanding Conning Tower contributor has been Adwriter Al Graham ("Ye Oulde Al Graham"), who wrote for F. P. A. a burlesque weekly newsreel continuity. Mr. Adams' own verses have filled several books. His prose has been divided between sane and salty comment on the current U. S. scene, good-humored correction of misquotations and bad grammar by other journalists, and the weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with...
...whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which I presume believed itself to be civilized and demanded interviews. I told them I had nothing to say. 'If ye hevn't, guess we'll make ye say something.' So they went away and lied copiously. . . ." He speaks of the U. S.'s "obedient and instructed Press," of the "overwhelming vacuity of the national life," of the U. S.-Canadian border: "And always the marvel...