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Lost Tribe. With much-publicized Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett in command, the schooner Effle Morrisey picked her way carefully along the northeastern coast of Greenland between ice floes as large as Manhattan Island. She carried Harry Whitney, Philadelphia financier-naturalist,* and Junius Bird, archeologist. Mr. Bird had gone on the cold 15,000-mi. trip because he had a mystery he wanted to solve. In 1823, the British explorer, Capt. D. C. Clavering had visited a highly civilized Eskimo settlement along the eastern coast. Since Clavering, no explorer had been able to find the town again. Captain Bartlett landed...
...thin, weary bird fluttered into the pigeon cote at Fort Monmouth, N. J. last week. The evening before it had been released with another bird from S. S. Leviathan, 100 mi. at sea. It had flown for nine hours to make the first long-distance pigeon flight over water. Its trainer, Thomas Ross, U. S. Army pigeon expert (TIME, Aug. 16), was so proud when he heard of its successful return that he christened it DO-X. The other pigeon was missing. DO-X lost six and one-half ounces on its journey-one-third of its normal weight. Pigeon...
...Edward Wigglesworth, director of the Boston Society of Natural History, last week dusted off his whale bones and stuffed birds, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the museum's founding. Because it was a special occasion, Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, Honorary Lecturer at King's College, London, was invited to make a speech to the curators, trustees, members. Professor Huxley, whose favorite recreation is "bird-watching," had much to say which a naturalist would find interesting. A distinguished scientist in his own right, he is the grandson of the late famed Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), popularizer of Charles...
...Jewish-Irish show with the scene laid in a dry-cleaning establishment owned by two Hebrews. The people address each other in loud low-comedy style. They spray cleaning fluid at one another, punctuate much of their conversation with a vulgar oral noise known variously as "the bird," "the Bronx cheer," "the Chinese kiss...
...perfect counterpart of her leisurely career.* She has an apartment in Manhattan, is often seen at concerts, the theatre, the Metropolitan which she now likens to a Ford establishment. The warm months she spends at Ridgefield, Conn., plays wholeheartedly the role of country gentlewoman. She motors, gardens, keeps a bird refuge, admires the neighbors' babies. Everyday at luncheon she entertains her father, Sidney ("Sid") Farrar, onetime professional baseballer and her neighbor. If the day is hot, re- gardless of other guests Father Farrar comes as he is most comfortable...