DISTAFF DIARY
FOR 1947
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ed a mere 144.
OCTOBER — Eggless, poultry
less and meatless days were start
ed. .. . Dr. Gerty Cori of Washing
ton University, St. Louis, and her
husband Carl split a Nobel prize
for medicine. . . . Dr. Millicent C.
McIntosh was installed as dean of
Barnard College. . . . Mrs. Thomas
Preston, widow of President Gro
ver Cleveland, died' at 83. . . .
Paris showed ankle-length street
dresses, one of which had a hem
six yards around.
NOVEMBER — Young, blonde
June Lockhart became a star over
night when her show, “For Love
Or Money” opened in New York
City. . . . The government dropped
poultryless days and started urg
ing people to eat more fowl. . . .
Princess Elizabeth married her
man, the newly made Duke of
• Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey
ceremonies broadcast round the
world. . . . WAC Sergeant Vivian
O’Rourke, 30, was swept off an
army transport into high seas—
and rescued two hours later.
DECEMBER — Christmas shop
ping, as it must each year, came
for everybody. . . . Claudia Pinza,
Mineral Produc
tion In Alaska
Gold and silver valued at $9,
199,057.20 were produced in Alas
ka during the first 10 months of
1947, according to statistics made
available to Delegate Bartlett by
the Bureau of Mines.
Production of coal totalled 221,
000 short tons, but statistics are
not available as to the value.
Lead valued at $5,100 and zinc
worth $2,310 were mined during
this period. Data on other minerals
are no compiled, but only the plat
inum-group metals and sand and
gravel are believed to have been
produced in more than very small
quantities, if at all.
The value of the gold, 251,732
fine ounces, has been given as
$9,160,620, with 42,472 fine ounces
of silver worth $38,437.20.
—
A coffee percolator is as essen
tial as a typewriter in many Bra
zilian business offices, since the
beverage is served several times
a day.
soprano daughter of a famous bar
itone, made her successful debut
as Mimi at the Metropolitan. . . .
Food rationing threatened.
U. S. Reports
Scientists Scarce
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Govern
ment officials said today there is a
critical scarcity of scientists in
certain branches of military re
search. But they discounted state
ments that an aversion to working
on death-dealing weapons is the
primary cause.
Economic factors and a scholar’s
desire for complete freedom in
study—rather than philosophies—
keeps many of them away from
government work, officials of the
military and the atomic energy
commission told a reporter.
The latest of a series of state
ments came recently from Dr.
Theodor Rosebury, Columbia uni
versity professor, who said “many
American scientists are refusing
to work on military develop
ments.”
Doesn’t Pay To Push
The Law Around
FARGO, N. D. {/P)—When the
car ahead of him at the stop sign
failed to move after the signal
changed, Obert Loberg didn’t
press his horn.
He nudged the car gently with
his own.
The other car, Loberg later com
plained, as he brandished a traffic
ticket, was a police car.
Hunt; No Game;
Bag Big Crow
PHILADELPHIA, <P) — A big
black crow struts in the chicken
yard behind the home of James
M. Large, Philadelphia banker—
captured but definitely uncon
quered.
Large, vice president of the
Tradesman’s National Bank, went
hunting Monday with George
Earnshaw, former pitcher for the
Philadelphia Athletics and a navy
commander in World War II.
After 15 miles of hiking and no
game, Earnshaw spotted the crow
flying overhead. Earnshaw took
aim and his shot apparently
brought the bird down wounded.
As the two men approached the
fallen crow with their setter, the
bird took nips out of Large’s fin
ger, the dog’s ear and Earnshaw’s
hand.
Outnumbered, the crow finally
was subdued but Large couldn’t
kill a bird with so much fight. So
now Mr. Crow is monarch of all
he surveys—in the large chicken
yard.
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