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Next week's issue not only discusses the art of these ten moderns, but also carries a four-page, four-color insert of their work. Except for the familiar Picassos, almost all of these paintings have never been reproduced in color in a magazine, and some have had no previous color reproduction at all. The job of selecting them got under way last February; most of them had to be photographed in Paris...
Forty-six-year-old Dr. Skinner has nothing particular against rats, except that they have the grave defect of living for only two or three years. A researcher can educate a promising rat, guide him through his school days; then, just when the rat is ready for his degree, he dies of old age. Pigeons, which often live 15 years, might be better, Dr. Skinner reasoned. Their reaction time is like that of humans; they have good color vision, and are not as stupid as their posturing and cooings have led people to believe...
Squirrels Know. In the U.S., Dr. Rogers laments, truffles are seldom found except by occasional botanists who are digging for something else. The only exception is in the Northwest, where the presence of truffles is sometimes betrayed by excitement among the ground squirrels. Truffle hunters dig where the squirrels are digging, and sometimes find truffles under the scented soil...
...western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand-new University of Washington at Seattle, decided to do something about the situation in Washington Territory at least. Mercer made a trip East, returned in 1864 with eleven girls from Lowell, Mass. All except one found husbands among the "grizzlies in store clothes" who had financed Mercer's trip...
Tufts has completed its regular baseball season with a record of 16 wins and four losses. Nothing remains for them except the N.C.A.A. championships and a practice game with the Crimson which will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. on Soldiers Field...