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*THE MAUVE DECADE-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($3). *THE DREADFUL DECADE-Don C. Seitz- Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50).
Worn by his tropical work, Dr. Reed died following an operation, and the government has named the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington in honor of the physician who "gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever."
The dreadful little note lay on the kitchen table. It was full of worn words, stale phrases used a thousand times in stories and plays: "Couldn't stand it any longer. . . am taking the children out of their misery because the boy is already beginning to show characteristics of...
"With extreme diffidence... I draw attention to the . . . custom of caging live birds and live animals and keeping them caged or chained up as a show. . . . I am not speaking of zoos. There is much to be said against zoos, but I am speaking of the caging of animals as...
In a strong iron cage behind a wire fence in Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, lived George Washington, male ostrich. He was not friendly. Keepers knew that his bleak eye, long nose and haughty air of breeding had made him many an enemy, but they believed that he was safe. The...