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...size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they had increased until there were several thousand on Martha's Vineyard. Then a forest fire destroyed practically all of them. Steadily the survivors died off until at present there is but one. Uncaged, he walked about last week, ate food prepared for him, stared gloomily at crows who snatched at his rations...
...second time in five years a play by Galsworthy, new to American audiences, finds its way to the public through a non-professional theatre. Five years ago the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre of the Chicago Art Institute presented the American premier of "The Forest". Last night the Harvard Dramatic Club gave the first performance in America of "The Show...
Because it is easier to fire a field of winter grass in the spring than it is to plow the stubble under, and because "burning off" brings sweet young grass for cows to eat, many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National...
...Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics. But the physical hardships were almost negligible. Thanks to the unstinting hospitality of large land-owners, Harvard's representatives enjoyed many comforts...
...Paul Runyan, 21, assistant professional at the Forest Hill Club, Bloomfield, N. J.: the North & South Open at Pinehurst, N. C., beating Horton Smith, Tommy Armour, Johnny Farrell, Joe Turnesa...