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...case I haven't made my point clear, I hasten to add that this is intended to be very high praise. Certain it is, the poem blows through the pages of "The Advocate" with so authentic and Rabelaisian a gusto as nearly crinkles its decorous pages, and you will search far to find poetry as good as the last nine stanzas. There are numerous dangers in doing something so palpably in the manner of an illustrious predecessor, dangers of which I suspect Mr. Agee is quite aware, yet I for one sincerely and devoutly hope that the parenthetical "maybe...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax...
Continuing their search for a permanent president, Princeton's trustees will have to consider at least three frequently mentioned alumni: Roland Sletor Morris (1896), Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Japan, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and member of the advisory board of Princeton's school of public and international affairs; Walter Ewing Hope (1901), long an able, devoted Princeton trustee, lately (1929-31) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick (1905) of Manhattan (brother of Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...
...lift their fore claws and strike out like boxers. They molt three or four times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore. In April and May they move shoreward to feed. In its old age a lobster may reach the length...