Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed in doubletalk ("Did you put the bird in the creen?") to keep their gags fresh for the bystanders who would later form their audience...
...prices to the housewife dropped more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last year it was 25.3 Ibs. Success in broilers encouraged turkey breeders to try contract farming. Originally a holiday bird, turkeys are now year-round fare; production is up, and as prices dropped, per capita consumption almost doubled...
...abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold Geissbuhler of Manhattan for a bronze Bird, whose cock's crow hauntingly echoes the earlier work of Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (see cuts...
Aeroflot pilots, though experienced, have won a daredevil reputation for going up in bird-walking weather. This can make for tough and treacherous travel, since they fly without electronic navigation aids in the back-country areas where airports are not equipped for instrument landings. What kind of safety record they have, no Westerner knows; Aeroflot does not announce crashes unless foreigners are on board. But there have been three crashes in the past three months alone that took 30 lives...
...Guest. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. Shelby Thrift sued Grocery Owner Roy Duvaul for $2,500 damages after having been pecked on the leg by a rooster which she claimed the grocer harbored "knowing it to be of a vicious and mischievous disposition," heard Duvaul insist that the bird was not his, it just "showed up at the store and hung around...