Snail Watch 1963 Ends With Final Report
A condensed 1963 note from the British Snail Watching Society, as reported in the Christian Science Monitor, states the 1963 report will be the last. The piece surveys humor about snails in cartoons, speed debates, humane slaughter concerns, and notes global attention from The Times to Time magazine while defending snail virtue.
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British
Snail Watching Society
Christian Science Monitor
Unique Society
The
Society of Snail Watching
Harvey Taylor
Free Press
Michigan
Maxwell Knight
Sunday Times
London
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Richard Headstrom
Country Beautiful
Robert Browning
Anthony Smith
Science and Industry
General Overseas Service
British Broadcasting Service
Listener
Snail
Norm
Brookline
Mass
Smith
Nyanassa
Royal Astronomical Society Club
Times
Shell
United States Army
Italy
Leghorn
United States
Time Magazine
Washington D.C
Hemisphere
Brazil
Boston
New York
Washington
Belo Horisonte
Brasil
ARMY
West
Germany
Ridiculous Ottawa school cost sparks housing debate
An Ottawa opinion piece criticizes a newly opened Ontario secondary school for lavish design and a $2.4 million price tag, equating to about $2,900 per student. The author questions affordability and whether such plush surroundings aid learning, contrasting with still- underfunded older schools.
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Ontario
Canada
Test Your Knowledge Test Your Knowledge
A quiz style item by Tom Frost with questions on subjects like lynx dangers water depth linen sources and Kipling’s Limpopo river. It presents multiple choice answers and brief notes on each topic including geography flax linen origins and African rivers.
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Rudyard Kipling
Europe
Asia
North America
Russia
Ireland
Limpopo
Transvaal
South Africa
Indian Ocean
Delagoa Bay
Song of the snail on approaching Kensington Gardens
A fragmentary verse pieces together a young narrator’s roaming in glum weather and late show imagery. It notes a Burgundy father and claims Ellis Island in New York as named after Samuel Ellis, a Manhattan butcher who owned the island as early as 1785.
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Ellis
New York Harbor
Samuel Ellis
Manhattan
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Boston Herald
Junior
United Features Syndicate
G. Kimmins
Camborne
Cornwall
Watchet
Somerset
Britain
Detroit Free Press Press
Norman Lyle
Birmingham
Reef Waldrop
Illinois
H. William Crall
Western Illinois’ Biology Department
Haseltine
Crall
University of Michigan
John Oughton
Ontario Veterinarian College
H. B. Toomans
American Museum of Natural History
Oughton
Tooman
J. B. Burch
Museum of Zoology
Toomans
Rome
St.’ Louis
Punch
RAF
New York Times
Heinze Woltereck
Associated Press
Atlantic Monthly
Maurice Sagoff
Ita
Peter J. Henniker-Heaton
Waikiki Beach
Yacht Harbor
Diamond Head
By Tom Frost
Song
Kensington Gardens
Burgundy