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Last week this tune, a pretty hot riff in four-four time, key of C, purled and bubbled from the beak of a little silver-colored bird in the lobby of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Every hour, on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the little bird sashayed from side to side, opened its beak and sang its song. The little bird's perch was in a wooden tree which overhung the head of a startled-looking horseman (see cut), also carved of wood. The whole thing formed the central figure...
...about Wales during the years 1400-1416. The title character is that subtle, flawed part-genius who led a Welsh-French army toward the London of Henry IV, and died a hermit. Its hero, a venturesome Oxford student named Rhisiart, is a young man with a "narrow skull . . . predatory beak and snatching lips." He becomes Owen's secretary, engulfs himself in an almost pathic loyalty-love for his boss, and has become an English Justice by the time Glendower dies...
...Into Eagle, after a 500-mile trek from Herschel Island, mushed beak-faced Explorer Roald Amundsen in December 1905, with news that he was three-fourths of the way around the Northwest Passage-goal of explorers since...
...with a red, chicken-hawk beak and whiskery white eyebrows bobbed off the train in Washington's Union Station one day last week. He paused, silent while photographers snapped his familiar beady-eyed, scowling squint, then stepped briskly into a long black limousine, and rode off towards the Capitol...
Next day, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, Cecil Wetzel, a lumberman, ex-collegiate wrestler, driving a logging truck through the thick woods, was stopped by a beak-nosed man in a sedan who asked: "How the hell do I get out of here?" Wetzel stared at the man and at the curly-haired child beside him. He stepped out of his truck and demanded: "How about that baby?" The beak-nosed man yanked out a revolver. Wetzel dived at him, overpowered him and, with the help of another lumberman who came running, tied...