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Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
...added feature in its already comprehensive program the Summer School of 1935 is advertising a course in bird lore, whose chief distinction is that it will be the first in the history of the College to get under way at the subnormal hour of 6 o'clock...
...course will give the student an acquaintance with at least 100 species of birds, and will deal with such topics as bird distribution, migration, plumage, nesting, song, senses, voice, and behavior...
...Roosevelt program, looking more fit for the Walter Reed Hospital than Capitol Hill, the truth of Mayor LaGuardia's blunt challenge makes itself felt more strongly than ever. With the cheery prospect before it, that if the Senate doesn't strangle it the Supreme Court will, the formerly tempestuous bird is flapping his wings in increasing futility. Yet most liberal thinkers would hate to see the Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed out, to make the social reform program fool-proof...
Richly illustrated with old photographs, the book contains one of a strikingly handsome youth seated at the controls of an early (1913) Wright pusher. The young man was Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer. Popular as an amateur automobile racer and pioneer sportsman pilot, Early Bird Bergdoll was to become notorious four years later as the No. 1 U. S. draft-dodger during the War. Grover Cleveland Loening says Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's reason for evading the draft was that he was refused a commission in the U. S. Air Service...