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...that had been "sanitized" (washed, heat-treated and chemically disinfected) to Government standards. He found huge amounts of residual bacteria: up to 13 million organisms per gram. Most are probably harmless to humans, but at least three diseases-including psittacosis, or "parrot fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth, wax crayons, a pencil, a chocolate bar, a chicken neck, hen manure...
...making regular payments, had fed him daily, clothed him and his family, partly furnished his home. One manufacturer was assigned to take Sternberg's aged parents to dinner almost nightly; the wife of another was pressed into service to supply a home-cooked turkey "whenever the Sternbergs craved fowl." Once Sternberg dropped the hint to one seller that he should assign an employee to push his father's wheelchair. Sternberg's total take: an estimated quarter of a million...
...Thurber Carnival is a one-mind show, an animated anthology of pen-and-pencil work by the most splendidly mad of modern humorists. The thought of such a show, however alluring, must cause qualms: Can a world, neither flesh, fish nor fowl and at the same time quite palpably all three, remain vaultingly alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been...
...ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other in and out of elaborate cats' cradles of pink rib bon; a scene-setting dance by a "cock and four rumpled "hens," whose strutting absurdities are closely modeled on th fowl Ashton observes at his Suffolk country home ("La Fille is my poor man's Pastoral Symphony...
...Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, criticized the ordination as super-Protestantism. Old Testament Professor (and Methodist) John Otwell of the Pacific School of Religion sounded off in a long letter in the Christian Century: "Putting it quite simply, it would seem that Dr. Hedley is now neither fish nor fowl. He has impugned his ordination as a Methodist, yet he remains merely a Methodist...