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...Alaska holds 2,500 giant brown bears, classified with the grizzly in the census. Outside that territory, diligent search could produce but 880 grizzlies, half in Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The buffalo was never half as near total extinction as is the grizzly today." Ordinary, garden-variety black and brown bears have multiplied. C. Deer, elk, mountain goats and sheep show encouraging increases, while the national forests see few moose...
Nettleton Neff '91, Dean A. C. Hanford, and J. R. Hamlen '04 last night issued an appeal to all Harvard men, undergraduate and graduate, to aid them in their search for W. W. Neff '29, now missing since June...
...dismal accident that he drove half a mile before he remembered to stop his locomotive. He reversed his speed then and travelled back to the scene of the sneezing. All the passengers on the train as well as brakemen and conductors helped him look for his synthetic molars. The search had been relinquished as futile, Engineer Bush was back in his cab, and moving forward again when a great shout went up behind him. A local searching party had found his teeth. Amid cheers from the passengers and cries of "Shut your face!" Engineer Bush put them back...
...about one-third of the editorial column. These blanks were then painstakingly cut out by members of the staff and it was whispered that I had suppressed an offensive story and editorial. The paper "sold like wildfire" and its appearance was followed by visits to the printer in search of the missing portions, offers of high prices for "unexpurgated" copies--as much as ten dollars was offered--and sales almost doubled those of other years...
...business principle which he taught his two sons, James Cox* and Nicholas Frederic, was to search for executive genius. They early supported Walter P. Chrysler in automobiles and Matthew S. Sloan in public utilities. Mr. Chrysler is now chairman of the Chrysler Motors Corp., and Mr. Sloan is President of Brooklyn Edison...