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Pigeons have been carrying messages ever since a water-locked Noah sent a dove out to bring tidings of land. Caesar, campaigning in Gaul, used pigeons to carry news of his exploits to Rome. In World War I a homing pigeon named Cher Ami, on duty with the famed Lost Battalion, braved gunfire from both the enemy and the Allies, flew 25 miles in 30 minutes with an urgent message for Allied gunners, arrived at his destination wounded in a leg and a wing, saved the battalion. In World War II a pigeon called G.I. Joe flew countless missions...
Child of Fortune (by Guy Bolton) derives from one of the most spacious and complex of all Henry James's novels, The Wings of the Dove. That alone may explain why the most recent of James's stage adaptations-which like the best of them might also have been called The Heiress-is among the most unsatisfactory. It is not so much that Adapter Bolton has violated James's novel (although he has made a host of small changes that reduce the book's great cumulative impact to emotional small change); it is much more that...
...DOVES OF VENUS, by Olivia Manning (313 pp.;Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), pull the chariot of the goddess of love, according to classic mythology. The doves of British Author Manning's novel are yoked to illusions about love. Dove No. 1 is a breathless 18-year-old country girl named Ellie Parsons whose ideal of love is losing her virginity to Quintin Bellot, a middle-aging charmer-about-London. Dove No. 2 is married to Dove No. I's Prince Charming, but Petta Bellot has always operated on the theory that variety is the spice of love. Since Quintin...
Columbia went ahead in the third period after a short punt by Stahura, going 58 yards in 11 plays. Benham, dove over from the two for the score, but Simourian blocked the conversion attempt and the score stood Columbia 19, Harvard...
WHEN Contributing Editor Spencer L. Davidson went down to Herman Talmadge's 2,400-acre plantation below Atlanta for a closeup of this week's cover subject, he discovered that his visit was a bit untimely. It was the tail end of the dove season, and Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired...