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...hotelkeepers know, the safest picture to hang in a hotel bedroom is a flower print: it makes nobody mad, except an occasional connoisseur. That flower-painting can be as handsome and as accurate as Audubon's birds was proved last week in San Francisco...
There was no doctor on the atoll (pop. 60)-but there was a radio ham, Steve Barnes. Barnes went to work, finally tuned in an old friend and fellow ham, Joseph Bonsted, 6,000-miles away.in Audubon, NJ. Said Barnes: "Joe, there's been an accident here. Can you get a doctor?" The nearest doctor was operating in the Audubon Hospital. Surgeon Ralph W. Davis paused long enough in his operation to give some terse instructions: "Tourniquets, loosened every 20 to 30 minutes, plasma transfusions. No morphine; he may have a fractured skull...
...interest at the drop of an oriole's egg, a pine cone or a test tube. At 71 he is president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, belongs to the American Chemical Society, the American Ornithologists Union and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. He is also custodian of the Audubon Society's sanctuary for bald eagles on Mount Johnson Island in the lower Susquehanna River...
Last week, the National Audubon Society's Robert Allen was starting an all-winter job: watching whooping cranes. At Aransas Wildlife Refuge, Texas, he would study their daily lives, their feeding habits, what made them happy or unhappy. He wanted to know everything about them, for the whoopers are on the edge of extinction. Fewer than 100 remain, and the flock is shrinking fast...
...Wildlife Service and the Audubon Society have not lost hope. For two years they have studied the stately cranes intensively. If they learn enough about the whoopers, they may be able to coax them into favorable, protected refuges, where they may dance their courtship measures and multiply with impunity...