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Sirs: The picture of a stuffed dodo (TIME, Sept. 14, p. 40) is, to the writer's untrained eye, much like a stuffed restoration of the dodo which is prominently displayed in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh bird differs from the Iowa reproduction principally in having a feathered tail instead of the cottontail effect, the coloring is apparently somewhat more uniform and there are slight differences above the eyes. Why then can Iowa claim "the only Stuffed replica in the world of the dodo?". . . L. L. NETTLETON Pittsburgh, Pa. There is also a reconstructed dodo...
...only the inferior and maladjusted individual who ever seeks emotional relief in such a bird-like act as that of whistling...
HARVARD 1935 ANDOVER Neer, l.e. r.e., O'Neill Hutchinson, l.t. r.t., Cahners Gannett, l.g. r.g., Davis Brookings, r.g. l.g., Rosenberg Casale, c. c., Barr Dow, r.t. l.t., Gardner Emory, r.e. l.e., Brown Haley, q.b. q.b., Bird Locke, l.h.b. r.h.b., Whitehead Tenney, r.h.b. l.h.b., Fitz Fuller, f.b. f.b., Graham...
...eyes, the gold leaf that clothed all. In doing this, the swallow stayed north too long. Winter came and the swallow died of cold. The Prince's heart cracked. The Town Councillors, squabbling over the Prince's metal body. threw the heart and the small dead bird on an ash heap from which an angel carried them to heaven...
...universities students with automobiles often tie strips of inner tubing to the exhausts, which when the motor is suddenly speeded causes them to emit a familiar noise known as "the bird," "corporal's salute," or "Bronx cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat...