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Over such glowing phrases in the advertisements of commercial correspondence schools, Psychologists Charles Bird and Donald G. Paterson of the University of Minnesota last week scattered a pamphletful of statistical ashes...
Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment...
...Other bird pests which the Department announced last week that it was combating: horned larks (from eating sugar beets); crows (from eating almonds); sea gulls (from digging divots out of golf courses...
...Pharaoh's tomb was in that of Amenhotep, threatening despoilers with poverty and ostracism, not death. The curse story started when Howard Carter's pet canary was swallowed by a snake. A poetic native remarked: "The serpent from the crown of the King has eaten the golden bird. Bad luck will follow." That was an inspiration to certain newshawks who were disgruntled because exclusive story rights for the Carnarvon expedition had been given to the London Times...
...getaway. Thereafter, from fear of savages, they gave many an inviting island a wide berth. As starvation knuckled down on them, mutinous voices muttered, but Bligh always silenced them, kept on. Cannibalism was never even suggested but when they were lucky enough to knock down an inquisitive sea bird, the weakest were given the blood to drink. When they got a fish they ate it raw, entrails...