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Highland Park Press, 1 Jan 1942, p. 6

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didn‘t have a lisp but her wide ayes did" . . . You know, fathing eveth." she will marry again. She won‘t tell his name. He is said to be an execuâ€" tive of Lioyd‘s, London. _Aside from the war stull, everyâ€" thing here is as quict as the cash register in a Sukiâ€"YÂ¥aki joint." . & . It is laughable to note that some of the people who weren‘t worâ€" ried about the safety of the flagâ€" are now trying to hide behind it. The reason they refuse to eat their words is that they know they‘re poiâ€" Jerry Lewis from H‘wood reports: "Aside from the war stuff, everyâ€" The Front Pages: The Times dug up a reminderâ€" that Japan has alâ€" ways specialized in sneak tactics. The Japs "mugged" Russia in 1904, just like Pearl Harbor . . . Dorothy Thompson isn‘t one to be fooled by the first patriotic squeals of some of the mischiefâ€"makers, and pointed out: *"Germany wants to continue to use her fifth column in the U. S., and they will all begin yelling now that we take away our interests from Europe and fight our own war" tors ... . Raymond Gram Swing‘s article, "Beware the Palace Revo lution," is a tipoff on how the Nazis intend to stay in power even wher they lose the war . . . Jim Tully‘s ‘‘Man Without Arms" has already been selected for inclusion in the next O‘Brien anthology . . _ Maj. George Fielding Eliot is to be Look‘s military expert . . . In Metropoli tan Host, drama editor I. Cahn, in reviewing the new hit, "Angel Street," remarked: ‘"The author didn‘t shoot the audience‘s emotions until he saw the whites of their knuckles." can do . . . We knew somebody would start a spirited campaigr against smoking as soon as someone perfected a lighter that works . . . Life was right on the nose with its piece on General Douglas MacAr thur by Clare Boothe. Very inter esting blogging . . . Stag is a new mag with a promising future. Many of your old favorites are contribu Here is an amazing story . . . The aunt of one of New York‘s better known girls recently died in Caliâ€" fornia . . . The body was shipped would like to take a last look and had the soffin opened . . Instead of seeing auntie, they saw an old General in full uniform . . . Franti cally, they telephoned the War Dep‘! . . . After much delay they wert informed there had been a mistake â€"and that the General‘s body would be picked up. Auntie, it seems, ha¢ been buried at Arlington with full The Story Tellers: In Reader‘s Di gest, Lieut. Comdr. Gene Tunney burns up about the harm nicotine military honors. There‘ll be no attempt to curtail the sale or manufacture of hooch in the U. S. because of the war. Repâ€" resentatives in the liquor industry were so assured by Washington . . . Don‘t rate the Doris Duke Cromâ€" other cafe society silly . . . Hunâ€" dreds of New York newspaper men have been assigned locations to covâ€" er in the event of air raids. school chum and his wife strolling along 5th Avenue. Tommy greeted him with: "I‘m very glad to see you againâ€"and is this your most charming wife?" The friend glared, and then, in his “’ a n f f B playboys was paying his estranged wife $1,000 weekly not to divorce himâ€"so he could beat the draft . . . She agreed while he paid . . . Last *This is my ONLY wife!" Cornelins Vanderbilt Jr. has been ealled to the colors . . . He is speâ€" clally assigned with the army and is down in the Pacific area. Vanâ€" derbilt was a private with the AEF and was gassed. â€"He is a Major in Federal Court, Gestapo agent Carl Reuper (one of the 14 convicted Nazi told pals at LaMartinique the other night that be was thinking of joining Man About Town: agents) The FBI is now accepting applicaâ€" tions from lawyers and expert acâ€" countants (between the ages of 23 and 35) to enlarge its field of Gâ€" men. Must be physically At and ready for duty anywhere. Apply by Peggy Joyce tells her chums that One of New York‘s more famous "As what?"" taunted a wag, "an Dr. Sharat K. Roy, curator of geoâ€" logy, collected invertebrate fossils in New York state. Liewelyn Williams, turatorâ€"of economic botany, sailed in October for a botanical expedition in Venezuela, and will continue collectâ€" ing and researches for about a year. Donald Collier, assistant curator of ethnology, left in September for five months of: archaeological research in Ecuador. Dr. Francis Drouet, curator of cryptogamic botany, made an exâ€" tensive collection of the cryptogamic plants of California. Dr. Fritz Haas, An expedition which has as one of its objects the determination of the date at which the Isthmus of Panama emerged from the sea was dispatched to Central (America in November and will continue its work in 1942, Paul O. McGrew, assistant curator of paleontology, is in charge. Notable additions to the museum‘s zoological collections were made by the Leon Mandel Galapago Expediâ€" tion. Scientific personnel included Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, curator of zooloâ€" gy emeritus; Rudyerd Boulton, curaâ€" tor of birds; Loren P. Woods, assistâ€" ant curator of fishes; Staff Taxiderâ€" mist Leon L. Waiters, and Melvin Traylor, associate in ornithology. Colin C. Sanborn, curator of mamâ€" mals, sailed to undertake collecting and studies of Peruvian animals. Further investigations were made of the prehistoric Mogolion Indian culture in New Mexico by the Field Museum Archaeological Expedition to the Southwest, Dr. Paul S. Martin, chief curator of anthropology and leader of the expedition, with associâ€" ated archacologists, and a "labor force" of twelve for the actual digâ€" ging, excavated the ruins of an anâ€" cient village which hed been occuâ€" pied sometimes between 1,200 and 2,â€" 400 years ago. A unique exhibit was installed in the Hall of Egyptian Archaeology through the courtesy of the General Electric Xâ€"Ray Corporation of Chiâ€" cago, which contributed the xâ€"ray and mechanical equipment. In this exhibit a mummy in its wrappings is shown alternately with the revelation of its skeleton on a fluoroscopic screen. Among many other additions and imâ€" provements to the exhibits are inâ€" cluded a habitat group showing the interâ€"tidal algal vegetation of the rocky north Atlantic shore. els, in which the museum‘s compreâ€" hensive collection of precious stones was reinstalled in a manner that brings out their full beauty of color, luster, and brilliance as never before. The most modern museum techniques and equipment were employed, inâ€" cluding new types of exhibition cases and improved fluorescent lighting methods. On of the new exhibition halls is the large new Hall of Fishes, conâ€" taining elaborate undersea habitat groups, and an extensive series illusâ€" trating relationship of the different species. The group include underâ€" water scenes of the Bahama Islands, the Texas Coast, and the shores of Maine. The hall was prepared under the supervision of Alfred C,. Weed, reproductions of fishes were predomiâ€" nantly the work of Staff Taxidermist Leon L. Pray, although other taxiderâ€" mists and artists also contributed. _ â€"‘The second new hall was H. N. Higinbotham Hall of Gems and Jewâ€" Expansion and improvement of exhibits continued during 1941, as for some years past, to be the major activity of Field Museum of Natural History. Two entirely new halls, one in the department of zoology, and one jointly installed by the departments of anthropology and geology, were opened, and many additions were made to the exhibits in other halls throughout all departments. The year was noteworthy also for an attendance in excess of 1,350,000 visitors; for the continuation of colâ€" lecting and research by expeditions dispatched to various fields in North, Central, and South America, and for the publication on a large scale of the results of these ckpeditions and other scientific research activities conducted by the staff of the museum. Museum Reviews 1941 Activities Dizecter i iais 3 upees rsrory Here‘s where you come when you want to DO SOMETHING about the weather! 360 CENTRAL AVENUE € Phome 3804 Highland Park, HMincis SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT A BC HEATING SERVICE, Inc. Let US put your OIL BURNER in Aâ€"1 condition! DEFEND YOUR HOME AGAINST OL‘ MAN WINTER (Or quote you on a new one) Boardman Conover and Howard W. Fenton were elected to fill vacancies on the Board of Trustees. Trustee Albert W. Harris resigned for perâ€" sonal reasons. Two trustee, Brigadierâ€" General Theodore Roosevelt and Enâ€" sign Joseph Nash Field, were called to active service in the U. S. armed serâ€" vices. A numbef of other members of the museum personnel were likewise called into various branches of miliâ€" tary service and the museum will hold their positions open for them when they return. Among new appointments to the museum staff were Orr Goodâ€" son, assistant to the Director ; Donald Collier, assistant curator of ethnology ; Melvin A. Taylor, Jr., associate in ornithology ; Miss Elizabeth Best, guideâ€"lecturer in the Raymond Founâ€" dation; and John Janecek, illustrator. For the first time in the history of such institutions as museums in this country, a Federal tax on admission charges became effective October 1. This tax, amounting to three cents each on paid admissions, is now charged to adults, but in the case of children, students, teachers and others to whom the museum is of direct educational importance, the museum itself is payâ€" ing the cost in order that full benefits to children and to the schools may not be ‘curtailed. persons who visited the museum, many additional hundreds of thousands beneâ€" fited from activities conducted outâ€" side of the institution‘s own biulding, such as the illustrated lectures and other programs presented by the James Nelson and Anna Louis Raymond Foundation, and the traveling exhibits circulated in the schools by the N. W. Harris Extension. On May 2, 1941, Field Museum celeâ€" brated the twentieth anniversary of its occupation of the present building in Grant Park. Since 1921, more than 25,000,000 persons have entered this structure. More than 5,800,000 others visited the museum during sofffe twentyâ€"five years in its old location in Jackson Park. curator of lower invertebrates, colâ€" lected thousands of representative Pacific shore animals in southern California, A botanical expedition to Guatemala, which began work in 1940, was concluded by Paul F. Standley, curator of the herbarium, and folâ€" lowed by a new expedition to the same country conducted by Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, assistant curator. Emmet R. Blake," assistant curator of birds, and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr., associate in ornithology, carried out a successful ornithological expedition in the southwest. Several specimens of one of the earliest large mammais to walk the earth, the rare Coryphoâ€" don, and many other fossil animals were collected by a paleontological expedition to the West under Bryan Patterson, assistant curator of paleonâ€" tology. Mr. Patterson was assisted by James H. Quinn, and others. An important mineral collection was asâ€" sembled by Bryant Mather, assistant curator of mineralogy, in variou eastâ€" ern states; mamals of the Mount Tancitaro area were collected by Frank C. Wonder on an expedition to Mexico; Mexican insects were obtained by Henry Dybas on a field trip to the Cordoba and Veracruz region; and fossil remains of a ground cloth of the genus Megalonyx were collected near London Mills, Iilinois, by Assistant Curator Patterâ€" Besides the approximately 1,350,000 Buy _ _\ _ Defense BONDSâ€"STAMPS The Quickest, Surest Way YOU Can Help Win This Wir ... 52> SILENT SERVANT Slerriide un insd anie idnsc Thus, it is prepared to take llmat instant position on current legislation, whereas many other organizations, arâ€" ticulate enough in groups, lose thur tongues when it comes to expressing It is not a large group as women‘s organizatins go. Neither is it richly endowed. City and State Leagues fiâ€" gure closely to keep going. The Massaâ€" chusetts League, now conducting a campaingn to raise $6,000, heads up 31 city Leagues, yet confines itself to a $13,000 yearly budget. Others are run on similarly modest budgets. Yet the League is so smoothly organized that its machinery turns swiftly. ana _ 2° + first women‘s organization to find its voice. and support the measure. It has spoken again. This time, in a message from its national president to the Senate Committee on Foreign Reâ€" lations. The League urges forthâ€"right repeal of the Neutrality Act, with the exception of Section 12, establishing the National Munitions Control Board. political action, get out and work. SPEAKING FOR WOMEN VOTERS The Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 1941. Unkind supposition has it that m vocal. Individually they may. But colâ€" lectively women are not articulate. One notable exception is the League of Women Voters. When the United States shuffled in indecision some months ago over the machine control.. Though many hardâ€" fought campaigns it has established puâ€" blic confidence in the cause it advoâ€" cates. Endorsement by the League has helped forwardâ€"looking movements everywhere. It has no axes to grind and avoids narrow partisanship. At the present time it vigorously supports President Roosevelt‘s foreign policies and urges outright repeal of the Neuâ€" uahyhn.ho.dtydoefiouituma lhnhnhhhhldnuueof proportional representation to clect a mu-fileq&:f:â€"dl-dhi-qe county ~reform abolishing â€" useless i'd“Nwl the passage of Proposiâ€" tion No. 1. the Christian Science Monitor, and were written about the League of woâ€" men Voters. They follow : LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS New York Times, November 2, 1941. In the twentyâ€"one years since it was organized the League of Women Voâ€" ters has reached full maturity and beâ€" come a power for good government. In Federal, State, and local affairs it is a force for better citizenship not The League operates in thirtyâ€"one States through 560 Leagues. 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