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Ornamental pheasants, which bear a resemblance to their gamebird cousins, are native to most of Asia and parts of the East Indies. Chief export centres are Singapore and Calcutta. Prices range from $10 or $15 per pair for common Goldens or Lady Amhersts to $250 for a pair of rare, shimmering blue-green-gold-copper-crimson Impeyans. Except for a few jungle varieties, the birds are hardy, need nothing in the way of quarters but a brush pile and windbreak...
Last week "Phil" Plant and his second wife put their special floating trailer aboard ship in Manhattan, set sail for Africa to collect ostriches and wart hogs for the American Museum of Natural History. But pheasants from the Plant collection of 3,000, one of the largest in the East, were among the Nepal Kaleeges, Blue Manchurians, Cheers, Versicolors and Impeyans which graced the Poultry Show. "They're just to look at," explains Fancier Plant. "They might replace peacocks that people keep in penthouses. They're like a miniature peacock, but they're more dainty. There...
...East Irvington, N. Y,, answering a midnight emergency call, Patrolman George Butler sped his radio car to an out-of-the-way household where Mrs. Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route in another police radio car, but Mrs. Moller could not wait. Patrolman Butler edged his car up to the window of the kitchen where she lay, turned up the radio to full blast, so Dr. De Victoria could tell him what to do. In a few minutes John Joseph Butler Moller...
...production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke up the agreement last year by demanding a bigger quota, came into line with an allotment of 18,000 tons yearly. Other annual quotas: Britain's Malay Peninsula, 71,940 tons; Britain's Nigeria, 10,890 tons; Dutch East Indies, 36,330 tons; Bolivia, 46,490 tons. The Belgian Congo, however, was given 13,200 instead of standard 7,000 tons. Tin is currently worth...
...program will close Thursday afternoon with an address given by Anna Louise Strong of Russia, who will speak on "The Far East--Is War Inevitable?" Miss Strong has crossed many frontiers during the past months and the discussion will concern "The People's Front...