Word: alder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this neighborhood. East of here, across the divide, the bird population has always been ten times-at least visibly-what it is on this side. On May 18th, I drove over there. Not a single horned lark, sage, field or song sparrow, nor a solitary pippet. Driving on above Alder, I stopped at the mouth of Water Gulch, got out and walked up to it a few rods where I knew that if all was normal I would find hundreds of these birds. I raised not a solitary bird...
Mark Faller was the only other member of the team to make the trip. Faller, a 160-pounder, lost in the opening round to Pacific Eight Champion Curt Alder of UCLA. Alder won the match...
...course, there might have been some sick humor in this book, if Adler had not scrupulously avoided all of Nixon's Red-baiting witticisms from Joe McCarthy days, or his pre-assassination remarks on he Kennedys (Jack and Bobby). On the other hand, Alder evidently decided that Adlai Stevenson (who died of natural causes) was acceptable comic terrain for the book, so among Nixon's Wit and Humor is the gem, "Stevenson is a pathetic Hamlet strolling across the political stage. To be or not to be--that is the question of him. And I assure...
Flusters the low light rising through alder tangle...
...bronze bust rests in a grove of mountain alder and aspen, looking out over a valley of sagebrush and meandering brooks. It is a fitting spot for a monument to Ernest Hemingway-the area around Sun Valley, Idaho, where he spent the last three years of his life. The dedication came on what would have been the author's 67th birthday, and 300 friends gathered with his widow Mary and son Jack to pay their respects. "I looked around at all the pomp and circumstance," said Jack after the speeches, "and then I saw a fruit...