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Wednesday, October 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The latest guest-villain is Vincent Price, who plays Egghead in "An Egg Grows in Gotham." Robin and friend scramble his fowl plans to take over the city...
...medical and scientific community of the day, this was utter nonsense. If true, it meant that cancer (at least in fowls) was an infectious disease, and everyone "knew" it was not. More likely, his critics scoffed, Rous had inadvertently let some cancer cells slip through his filters. With infinite patience and persistent good humor, Dr. Rous extended his work to other kinds of tumors in different species of fowl. A quarter-century later, the late Dr. Richard E. Shope followed his lead and produced virus-induced tumors in rabbits. By now, half a dozen mammalian species carry viral cancers...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a first edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America went for $60,000. The four-volume "Elephant Folio," so called for its outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under...
Somehow the old eland was missing. Neither hide nor hair of him had been seen since the day that Kwame Nkrumah had been ostrichized, accused of being the biggest cheetah in Ghana, but safaris anyone knew, no fowl play was involved...
...force that drives the young man to his destiny. The young hero runs with a wild pack of boys in County Down, a leader in all their hunts and games until he adopts a ferret named Jill. Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl. Stoats are the actual villains, but ferrets look mean, and an array of sinister powers is imputed to them, including the ability to impregnate women. Through his loyalty to his pet, the hero slowly learns that his instincts are different from those of his friends. The author is a Down...