Word: buzzard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
Born. To Stanley Frank Musial, 38, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder-first baseman, who has parlayed a coil-spring batting stance, quick wrists and buzzard-sharp eyes into seven National League batting titles and a roster of alltime records, and Lillian Labash Musial, 38: their third daughter, fourth child; in St. Louis. Name: Jean. Weight...
...report, rocket enthusiasts began to clot together in little societies. The science of celestial mechanics (motions of the planets) had been highly developed by the astronomers. The astronauts took it over, added some features of their own. Long before World War II, when no rocket had flown above buzzard altitude, they drew charts of imaginary voyages to Mars or Venus that match almost exactly those drawn today...
...morning last week, Jack Putnam, foreman of nearby Buzzard Ranch, rode his horse up Ferris Mountain. LeMasurier's radio-TV company in Duluth had offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank...
...YARD BACKSTROKE: 1. Plourbe (Bowdoin), 2. Dolbey (Yale), 3. Earley (Yale), 4. Kirk (Army), 5. Harris (Cornell), 6. Wolf (Cornell)--2:11.1. 220-YARD FREESTYLE: 1. Anderson (Yale), 2. Cornwell (Yale), 3. Goodman (Army), 4. Ellison (Yale), 5. Bahrenburg (Dartmouth), 6. Bronston (Yale)--2:07.0. 100-YARD BREASTSTROKE: 1. Buzzard (Syracuse), 2. Johnston (West Chester Teachers), 3. Koletsky (Yale), 4. Hardin (Yale), 5. S. Falk (Harvard), 6. Fleming (Yale)--1:06.1. ONE-METER DIVE: 1. Frischmann (Syracuse), 2. Gorman (Harvard), 3. Knight (Army), 4. Starkweather (Yale), 5. Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY...