Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wearing a TIME cover around your neck, as a cravat. Reason: cloth designers such as Georgette Duffee of Manhattan's Falcon Studio keep their patterns somewhat tied to the news. When she saw Artist Boris Artzy-basheff's cover picture of Siam's King Phumiphon last year, she thought it offered a good way to keep her lines related to the increased news on Southeast Asia. So the cover's little men with lanterns, its tiny half-moons and mystic squibbles, became part of a maroon-blue-white design. When a researcher went...
...Clocker turned and waved to his wife. "Old horses never die," he whimpered, "they go to Suffolk Downs." The Clocker gave these tips: First Doit Easy; Fifth, Four Chances; Sixth, Algasir; Seventh, Blue Falcon; Eighth, Soma Lad; Ninth, Quatrefoil...
...falcon . . . dashes away as quickly as its hood is removed and the hawker releases the bird from his wrist. It promptly mounts to a height of perhaps half a mile, and "waits on" in circling flight above its owner until prey is flushed, whereupon the falcon dives to the attack in its incredibly swift stoop. It is not unusual for a peregrine 2,000 feet in the sky to get down and kill its quarry pigeon before the prey has traveled 100 yards. A breath-taking sight...
...falcon does not return to its trainer's arm after making a kill, but squats on Its victim . . . until the hawker comes quietly up and lifts the falcon to his hand again. If the kill is made beyond the hawker's sight or quick reach, the hawk may gorge itself and fly off, never to be recaptured. Few falcons remain captives more than a few months...
Last week U.S. bird watchers had an eye peeled for the peregrine falcons which were migrating from the northeastern U.S. and Canada to the Gulf states and the Caribbean. But not all were migrating this month. The New York World-Telegram and Sun noted that a very few will winter-as-usual, of all places, high on craggy skyscrapers in Manhattan. There they have found ledges as bare and precipitous as any mountain falcon eyrie. And they have a year-round food supply in the thousands of fat and sassy Manhattan pigeons who linger below...