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...interest to most San Franciscans, the wholesale poultry store of Corriea Bros, was flamboyantly advertising ELECTROCUTED POULTRY. In their execution chamber a short endless belt conveyor moves alongside a longer conveyor which carries the fowl, fastened by the feet. In the Cornea store an attendant fastens the bird's head into a clamp from the short, inside belt. About a foot farther on, a lever is pressed down, completing an electrical circuit. Some 1,000 to 1,500 volts, depending on the size of the fowl, stepped up by transformers from ordinary house current, pass through the victim, shooting...
...subject of "Culture as a Determinant of Behavior." The term represents a concept of a many-sided functioning as a unit, with all its customs and traditions interrelated. Malinowski observed just such a functional society during a very close study of the Trobriand Indians of Melanesia, and by giving bird's eye views of the culture of the Masal tribes of Africa, the Chagga, also of Africa, the Esquimaux, and the Trobrianders, illustrated the fact that scientific principles of anthropology may be universally applied. He urged the use of "scientific determinism" in the study...
...BIRD ALONE-Sean O'Faolain-Viking...
...second "squawk" concerns "Dodo" itself. Here certainly is an elegant name. Twenty-five years ago at the Naval Academy I was the member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact...
Best guess of most observers was that Arthur Krock had not turned yellow journalist, that the President had indeed considered the idea, probably about once, perhaps in an expansive mood at a dinner party whence some little bird may have gone to whisper it in credulous Mr. Krock...