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Doris Duke Cromwell, photographed in a Manhattan nightclub with Errol Flynn, brightened the photographers' day by doing a left-handed cock-the-snoot...
...Since a pilot's abdominal muscles are strained when he leans forward in the cock pit, they must be developed. One exercise starts with a sitting position. The cadet bends forward obliquely, turning his trunk. Another consists of jumping with feet apart, touching the right toe with the left hand, and vice versa...
...field so well camouflaged that even experienced pilots have a hard time finding it, taxiing the plane into the line of delivered bombers whose next job is to fly over Europe with bombs in their bellies. Looking at that neat line last week, Sir Frederick had good reason to cock his eyebrows and be proud...
Manhattan's bird-painting fans flocked last week to Fifth Avenue's Audubon House to cock their eyes and twitter over a new set of Southern bird pictures. Few bird lovers would crook their necks to look at a Rembrandt. But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent...
During the last 20 years of Max's burgomastership, his right arm in the City Council was a physician named François van de Meulebroeck. Meulebroeck, no cock sparrow, weighed 235 pounds. His clothes bagged on him, he came of peasant stock and loved to chat in his native Flemish with the fishwives in the market place. On Max's death, Dr. Meulebroeck became Burgomaster of Brussels...