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...Mayo. But in the end he spurns her with an admonition ("No woman is worth the lives of eight men"), and goes off with beautiful, gentle Phyllis Kirk, daughter of the vice-governor of Texas. Bird fanciers may be interested to note that the picture depicts noted Ornithologist James Audubon (George Voskovec) as one of Bowie's conversational sparring partners...
...Fort Worth plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break on the story. Then, in a flight of B-36s hovering high overhead...
Though ornithologists cluck over the inaccuracies, John James Audubon's bird paintings have earned him a cozy nest in art history. His animal paintings are not so well known, and his sons-two able artists who grew up under J.J.'s great wing and stayed in his shadow-are practically forgotten. The three Audubons' major work was a series of 150 "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America," begun in 1842 and finished six years later. Son Victor did the landscape backgrounds for many of them, and son John W. painted 72 of the animals themselves. The entire...
...Father Audubon took small animals for his province, urged friends to send him specimens preserved in jars of rum. Son John tackled the bigger game, made trips as far from their Hudson River home as Texas to get the creatures right. He painted in precisely his father's style, and so well that few could distinguish between their work. "My wish," he wrote Victor, "[is] that my name will stand as does my father...
...These chickens were painted by John James Audubon in one morning before one o'clock lunch, as someone visiting told him he did not believe such rapid work could be done...