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Harvard sports afielendos are, evidently, supposed to be at least mildly interested in this book because Richard T. Button '52--men's World, men's Olympic, men's European, men's North American, and national men's figure skating champion has been included. His story is told in one of 17 chapters, covering the activities of three dozen athletes who, in the author's opinion, did something noteworthy during the 1948 season. Waldman, a sportswriter for the Christian Science Monitor, is sufficiently familar with his subjects, but his lack of imagination and his love of acntimentality make his accounts trite...
...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...
...latest bird who is matching his powers of endurance against this one-button bandit is attempting to grow fat, according to latest results, by poker-facedly beating a tattoo of 63,000 pecks in 13 steady hours. The time interval that the bird is working is being lengthened, and Dr. Skinner is attempting to learn when this bird will break down, exhibit signs of mental fatigue, and realize that the gambler's life...
Another test uses three buttons, two of one color and an odd one. This measures quickness of reaction. Birds hit the center button, and then immediately strike the matching one to win their meal...
...calls them, from a local pigeon-breeding farm. He admits pigeons are "notoriously dumb creatures," but admires their steadiness of intellect, or lack of it. The farm gives him surplus white homing-pigeons. They are too easy prey for hawks, but make excellent material for the battle of the button...