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...American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. . . . The American squirrel ... is a large grey...
...metre back stroke race. Instead of steering by the row of flags over her lane, she kept her head turned to watch Philomena Mealing of Australia whom she beat by 5 ft. The one race that U. S. women swimmers have never done well in, the 200-metre breast stroke, went to a 16-year-old Australian schoolgirl, Clare Dennis of Sydney, who made an Olympic record of 3:06.4, a ripple ahead of little Hideko Maehata of Japan. An unbeatable U. S. team of Josephine McKim, Helen Johns. Eleanor Sayville and Helene Madison won the 400-metre relay...
...Jones Beach. A towheaded girl with a little boy's face and the torso of a minnow, 15-year-old Katherine Rawls of Miami Beach, Fla., surprised everyone a year ago by winning the national breast stroke championship at 220 yd. Last week in the Olympic Swimming Trials for Women at Jones Beach State Park. L. I., she surprised everyone again. Sure that she could qualify for the team with third place or better, her coach told her to take it easy in the 200-metre swim, save her strength for the diving that came later the same afternoon...
...colossal pageant-pantomime. This will be a world premiere, with scenery by Joseph Urban. Who the composer and what the subject. Dr. Damrosch would not tell last week. No shooter of all his fireworks at once, he said: "I shall keep the secret closely locked in my breast until the right time comes...
...much more rare in the Negro than in the white race, and that Negroes may even possess a sort of immunity to cancer in general." Of this Dr. Everett Lassiter Bishop of Atlanta was skeptical. In Atlanta's Steiner Cancer Clinic he found as many cancers of the breast and cervix in Negroes as in whites. Young Atlanta Negresses more often than young Atlanta white women have cervical cancer. Thinking that Negroes might have black cancer more often than Dr. Matas et al. believed, Dr. Bishop went hunting for dark moles on full-blooded cancerous Negroes. For clues...