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...Eastern duck hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...
Died. Henry F. Sanborn, 44, general eastern agent of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., of bullet wounds in the heart inflicted by an unknown murderer; in Queens, N. Y. His body was found buried in a shallow grave 100 yd. off the Long Island Motor Parkway by berry pickers who saw his shoe sticking out of the ground. Police could establish no motive for the crime. They held his fiancee, a young Swedish interpreter, for questioning, and asked European police to question Bancroft Mitchell, son of onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell. Just before sailing for France, Mitchell...
...shallow scoff at the outpourings of these pessimists; the thoughtful are challenged to sober reflection. History, especially current history--witness Russia, and Central Europe for example--is weighted heavily in favor of the pessimist. What can education say in answer? Nothing with certainty, that is, nothing which the pessimist, can not overwhelm with contradictory evidence. The pessimist looks into the past and is fortified, the educator in the final analysis must rest his case on the future and the hope that history need not always repeat itself. Suppose then, that the pessimist convinces the world that he is right--what...
...Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated by becoming a bathing...
...true measure of Professor Babbitt. Grief, especially for an intellectual enemy, is likely to be brief, and the world of letters will not pause long to honor one who was heard but not heeded. With the loss of his penetrating criticism, there will undoubtedly be a new flow of shallow carping by the second-rate "genius" which has long been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains...