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...Park Avenue district to catch poison-sprinklers who have been endangering the lives of expensive Park Avenue dogs (TIME. Jan. 12). Neighbors in the immediate vicinity of the suspicious house had complained particularly. They told the agents that twelve nearby dogs had died in agony. Two fine bird dogs, valued at $500 each, had barely been saved...
...past 15 years. Congress has done three important things for U. S. wild life. In 1918 the treaty with Canada establishing regulations for migratory birds was made the law of the land. In 1922 the U. S. Biological Survey was appointed enforcer of this treaty. In 1929 came the Norbeck-Andresen Bill appropriating $8,000,000 for the establishment of migratory bird sanctuaries now under survey...
...Bluebird. It has the same long chassis he drove at Daytona three years ago (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928) but its new 12-cylinder Napier aeroplane engine has been equipped with superchargers that up its horsepower from 920 to 1,450. The Golden Arrow had only 900 h. p. Blue bird's chassis clears the ground by five inches and the wind resistance has been reduced by changes in streamlining. Fins like a plane's elevators will hold down the rear wheels. It needs three miles to work up to full speed and three miles to stop...
...Hobart Ames big plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn., over rolling country and meadowland covered with Japanese clover, the best bird dogs in the U. S. had trouble. The weather was warm and grey; rain threatened. Rex's Tar-heelia, Rumson Farm Queen, Junedale Lady Bird made some mistakes. Some of the dogs were pointing land turtles and stink-birds; several times deer interfered with the trials. Yankee Doodle Jack, black & white setter, looked best with six bevies and a single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might...
Sculptor Frederick William Mac-Monnies spread out his hands before an interviewer and cried : "Penguins! There's no help for it ! If you want the truth and dare to print it, that's the answer. . . . The barrel shape of the bird's body is reproduced exactly in the barrel shape of the woman of today who neither exercises physically nor exercises the least self-restraint upon her appetite. . . . Have you ever noticed the silly, self-satisfied expression of the penguin? It is almost a leer. That is the crowning point of resemblance. ... I have been speaking of . . . the woman over...