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...house in town. Little Joseph Boggs Beale was also a great-grandnephew of Betsy Ross. Accordingly he was sent to the most reputable school in town, the old Central High School. Almost immediately after graduation he joined the faculty as instructor in drawing, and proceeded to grow a fine pair of side whiskers. Though he fought through the Civil War and spent far more time as a hack illustrator than he ever had as a teacher, he was known for the rest of his life as "The Professor...
This duck arithmetic, arbitrary though it may be. strongly affects not only protective bodies like the National Association of Audubon Societies but also sportsmen who hope that their sons and grandsons may not grow up too late to enjoy the ancient and honorable sport of wildfowling. If each pair of this year's ducks were allowed to live through this winter and go north again next spring, the duck population might increase by next season to 80 million ducks, enough to assure the birds of a fresh start...
...Charbneau collection has grown until Mr. Charbneau had to hire a business manager to care for it. Not everything in it is the smallest in the world because it includes such miscellany as the eardrum of a whale, a barnacle from the battleship Oregon, a horny oyster, a pair of musical balls from China, an opalized gingko tree. But notable among the costly peeweeana are the following...
Cleveland. A pair of simple psychotics made the week's final murder headlines in the Midwest. According to Mr. and Mrs. Waldman of Cleveland, just because Mr. Waldman had once known Mrs. Ida Rose Cooper, she sent magic fireballs into their windows at night. Mr. Waldman had been burnt. The Waldmans slept with a pair of pliers in the bed to catch the floating fireballs, a hammer and anvil to smash them with, and "even in this hot weather we had to keep the windows closed to keep the fireballs out." When Mrs. Matilda Waldman shot and killed...
...Accountants now in the field there is an amazing diversity of occupational backgrounds. Sixty-three are experienced farmers, 17 are aviators, 17 newshawks, one a baker, seven professional baseball players, one a surveyor, one an oil gauger, 37 with banking experience. Two were radio announcers. ("That's the pair they ought to shoot," jests Director Hoover...