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...gets radio awards by the baker's dozen. This week she will get "one of the sweetest of them all." The society of Audubon Artists will honor her for making the most "notable contribution to radio" in the last year. The dividend: her portrait painted free by Maximilian A. Rasko, who has done Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and a heap of crowned heads...
...child of a family of 14 children. The trail (he seldom used the words "road" or "path") that led him to the woods was long and hard. It led him first to Canada, where his study of nature was hampered by frontier chores, poverty, parental obstruction and poor health. Audubon's bird paintings inspired his drawing...
...Poor Mr. Audubon." When a British engraver agreed to copy his watercolors for publication, Audubon's fame & fortune were made. Said he in a letter from Edinburgh to his long-suffering Lucy: "It is Mr. Audubon here and Mr. Audubon there until I am afraid poor Mr. Audubon is in danger of having his head turned." With his big beak, feathery sideburns and piercing eyes, he looked, in his latter days, like a benevolent eagle...
...time, which destroys many more artful and more careful men, has vastly enhanced Audubon's greatness. His work hangs in scores of U.S. museums. He has been the hero of a round dozen biographies -and of several efforts to prove that he was really the "lost dauphin" of France. Popular editions of his Birds of America have sold over 200,000 copies. The Audubon Societies have perpetuated his name through hundreds of bird sanctuaries, imperceptibly transformed the artist who used to kill as many as 100 birds a day for sport into a sort of scientific St. Francis. Last...
Whether or not they were correct in every detail, Audubon's woodpeckers quarreled, his swallows nestled, his wild turkeys gobbled. Audubon had turned paper into air, and set birds free...