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Cheyenne Indians, in complete tribal regalia, picketed the U.S. post office at Watonga, Okla. Inside was a mural by Edith Mahier of the University of Oklahoma, depicting their ancestors under the reign of Chief Roman Nose. Explained 71-year-old Chief Red Bird: "Picture not like Roman Nose. Breech clout too short, look like Navajo. Roman Nose's baby look like stumpy pig. No good. It stinks...
...State of Connecticut, which for seven years has admired the paintings of its celebrated bird painter, white-haired, leathery Reginald ("Rex") Brasher (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938), last week turned its words into deeds. At the suggestion of the Waterbury Republican's and American's William J. Pope, the State Legislature passed an appropriation of $74,290 to buy Brasher's collection of North American bird portraits-bigger, if not better than that of the late, great John James Fougere Audubon. Connecticut had, as yet, no museum to put them in, couldn...
...foolish talk. The damper audience began heckling him, got better and louder at it. Comedian Wynn got mad, made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...
Another early-bird in subcontracting was Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, onetime protege of famed Frederick W. ("Speedy") Taylor. Cooke thinks that the defense effort should extend even to the home, points to the British "bits and pieces" system which spread aircraft production to 6,500 small shops. But neither Cooke's writings nor the Treckers' barnstorming have yet produced large-scale results. Trecker himself estimates that more than 45% of the nation's defense capacity is still idle...
...basis of performances this season and in the winter meet against the Cantabs, Yale looks hot in the distance. Pfeiffenbetger, Adams, and Big Three Cross Country Champ Bill Bird will be Coach Hoyt's nominees in the two mile run, while Mal Main will lead the Blue forces in the mile...