Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This legislator hoped someone would write new words to "The Gridiron King," much as the State of Maryland had adapted the old German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" to its own purposes. This suggestion, however, evoked sharp editorial response from the ever-watchful Boston Herald: "Leave the songs to the birds and Tin-Pan Alley." The Herald's plan, however, does not appear to be the most practical solution. Massachusetts' Official State Bird is, of course, the chickadee...
Terrier. A small, solid-fuel antiaircraft missile, it is already installed on missile ships. Its range is short, and it will probably be replaced by the Tales, a rocket-ram-jet bird...
Novelist Alec Waugh, Evelyn's elder brother, can squeeze out this sort of dialogue as fluently as any large-sized tube. To his gift of the gab, Alec adds a bird's-eye view of life: his new novel is fairly crammed to the horizons with ever-speaking likenesses. The book is a Literary Guild selection for January, has been condensed, serialized, and bought for the movies...
...because it is aimed at those who take themselves too seriously and who forget to feel the stars, the sun and the land the way Miro does. The fact that his form is organic and never completely abstract--that it is always a sign of something "a man, a bird or something else"--should give his art lasting value both because contemporary art is moving away from the more analytic and technical phases of modernism and because such form, combined with virtuosity of color, seems to be most humanly satisfying...
...I.N.S. wires. Last week- as once before (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953)-the crows were coming home to roost: into the office of the society (which consists of a pressagent for National Distillers' Old Crow whisky) flew more than 500 clippings showing how the wise old bird had made gulls of the Washington Post and Times Herald, the Boston Daily Record and other papers all over...