Word: albino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the whale ship Anglo Norse put in at Elizabeth, N.J., with photographs of a real Moby Dick: an albino sperm whale harpooned off Peru several months ago by Gunner Henrik Nilsen. The whale was a 56-ton patriarch, all milky white with a bluish tinge around the tail. Gunner Nilsen struck first, lived to see his prey cut up and rendered...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...whale was reported captured and killed by the French ship Anglo Norse. The crew took photographs of the beast to certify their catch, and according to the production manager of the whaling fleet of which the Anglo Norse was a member, this was the first albino sperm whale ever taken...
Outside the battle lines, bystanders asked each other what all the shooting was really about. A strong hint came from Italy. There, Msgr. Albino Galletto, head of the Catholic Cinematographic Center, suggested that in the largely non-Catholic U.S. such a movie might lead non-Catholics to scoff at the church's teaching...
...tiny house on a wooded hillside near Atlanta. His studio, as big as the house, is always alive with birds, some to paint and others that have been hurt and need fixing. Among his guests last week were three Canada geese, a very angry golden eagle named Sergeant, an albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves at home in his living room and a screech owl has perched on his easel...