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Last year's law caught sportsmen napping. Many insisted there was no shortage. Others, admitting a shortage in the West and a general scarcity of canvasbacks, redheads and other divers, insisted that in the East most wildfowl were as plentiful as ever, black ducks more so. Editor Raymond Prunty ("Ray") Holland of Field & Stream argued that if a duck cannot find food in one place it will go somewhere else. To raise money for conservation the American Game Association introduced a bill in Congress providing for a $1 Federal hunting license, met a counter proposal from the More Game Birds...
Next day Maiola Kalili finished third in the final heat, behind Ray Thompson of Annapolis and Al Schwartz of the Illinois athletic Club, who won. Clarence ("Buster") Crabbe won the 1,500-metre free style race; but spies from the Japanese Olympic team, who sat peering at the meet and scribbling in note books, wrote a long description about a freckled 14-year-old Floridian, Ralph Flanagan, who finished a close second. Crabbe won the 400-metre free style two days later, in better time than the Olympic record...
Headquarters. Everett Sanders, new chairman of the National Committee, leased 90 rooms on the sixth floor of the Palmer House in Chicago as the party's main headquarters. Henry Justin Allen, bald and beaked, was installed as master of the mimeograph. Ray Benjamin, the President's quiet California friend, opened an office where he could take and make White House telephone calls undisturbed...
Last week in Paris Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reiterated in a paper read before the International Electrical Congress his belief that cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend Dr. Compton last week...
...keep clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom...