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...Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs, scratched on the face by some pesky twigs, and firmly determined never again to stray from a city pavement. The Perkinses managed to find some unusual birds. All I spotted was a robin-first of the season...
...Coney Island, crowded with an estimated 1,300,000 the first day of the long July 4 weekend. By the millions, other U.S. citizens swarmed out of their cities and headed for a holiday. Some 30,000,000 cars jockeyed for space on the roads. This week, mosquito-bitten and sunburned, Americans were back at work and the nation counted its 553 holiday dead: 163 drowned, 271 killed on the highways, 119 dead in other accidents...
...Akron, Ohio, Bernice L. Wise sued a cafe proprietor for damages, complained that while in the café she had been bitten by one of two Pomeranians in their cups...
...Tokyo suburb of Tamagawa, the afternoon of Sept.11, 1945 was sultry. A sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo, wartime premier of Japan. Tipped off that General MacArthur had ordered the hard-bitten little war lord's arrest, the newsmen had scrambled out ahead of the Army detail that would take him in. They grew impatient, sent a Japanese in to offer him a lift into town if he'd surrender to them instead. He refused to emerge from his study...
...rear admiral. But newsmen, whom she greeted in a sky-blue negligee, got several versions of his career: he had really been only a Navy captain, but she had boosted his rank to help "open Washington doors"; he had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was bitten by a cobra while hunting with Roosevelt in Africa; he had been called ashore by General Pershing in France, where he joined the Rainbow Division...