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Died. Helen Bowen Blair, 17, only daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Chicago socialites; from injuries received when her horse, Pitennis, threw her at Onwentsia Country Club, Lake Forest...
...Passed a bill forbidding power developments and lumber cutting in the Superior National Forest, Minn...
...waddling, brown-black-&-yellowish-white, bead-eyed, strong-toothed, sharp-quilled porcupine of the West (erethizon epixanthum) has been protected for years for the same reason that porcupines are protected in the North and East: it is the one animal of the forest which man, lost in the woods without a firearm, could be sure of killing to escape starvation...
Chicago suburbanites from the apartment houses of Evanston to the mansions of Lake Forest have long felt just as Bori does about "the opera house in the woods." The place has a unique, informal charm. It is an outdoor pavilion but the stage is enclosed on three sides, thus preserving the details which in much outdoor music are so sadly smudged. People may come informally dressed, smoke through the performances, have soda-water between the acts. And they come in crowds- in limousines, by train, or on the trolley...
American sportsmen deplore Alaska's action. Famed Stewart Edward White has categorically denied the charges against the Kadiak bear or ''brownie." Of the death of John Thayer, an assistant in the Forest Service, whose death precipitated the legislative action, Mr. White wrote in the Saturday Evening Post: ''The victim was green to the beasts and turned loose on the first one he saw, wounded it just sufficiently to make it pugnacious. Then when the bear charged, the poor fellow stood stockstill and unresisting, until the bear pounced upon...