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...reader suppose the prairie chicken dance to be a myth. It is a mating demonstration, performed in early Spring. The birds gather on an open grassy spot at early morning. The males strut back & forth, raising the tail and neck feathers, puffing the sides of the neck into little orange balloons. The beak is closed, but the air blown into the crop helps to produce a tooting noise...
...Reader Lambert errs. The late Capt. Roehm lost the upper part of his nose in an early battle of the War. TIME never has "doctored" a news photograph, never will...
George Douglas Howard Cole is Reader in Economics at Oxford, acting President of the Workers' Educational Association, member of the League of Nations' Economic and Political Committees. He whites articles on economics for the Encyclopedia Britannica, books such as Gold, Credit and Unemployment and Unemployment, British Trade and Industry Past and Future...
...ISLAND&151;Anthony Berkeley&151;Crime Club ($2). Risking expulsion from the Detection Club for a "guessing finale," the author exposes 14 people to a suspicion of murder. Cast away in an environment of suspicion, each of the group exhibits his basic personality, enabling Roger Sheringham to satisfy the reader's conclusion...
...Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...