Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yard pigeons have it rough these days. First it was that owl. Now a large duck hawk has moved into the Memorial Hall tower, and a screech owl lives in Cambridge Common...
...duck hawk is a large and rare falcon. The pigeons will have a tough job trying to escape its speedy dive, for it is one of the fastest birds in the world...
...addition to the Administration would be Washington's lame-duck Governor Mon C. Wallgren, who had sat right behind Harry Truman in the Senate. The word was that the President would employ Wallgren as a liaison man between the White House and his old friends in Congress...
...State Secrets. There was much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Madar handed in his report, a 15 pageopus including diagrams, the Sunday before the Harvard-Dartmouth game. That's probably what he'll be doing next year, too. How does he like Cambridge? Fine except for one thing. Mr. and Mrs. Madar are enthusiastic bowlers--but they prefer duck plus and so far they haven't been able to locate a single one of those in captivity in the Boston-Cambridge area...