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...hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American cowboy. The final and most sparkling sequence, the "Aquarela do Brasil" (watercolor of Brazil) is a beautiful spectacle of rhythmic color and samba music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Gloria Roehl's steamy "Wellesley Blues" will head the show with several other soles included as well as a number of chorus numbers (musical). Philanthropic Network officials claim to have originated the broadcast for the benefit of men who were unable to get out to its natural habitat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Sulks as Network Brings Waban Chirpers Here | 11/18/1942 | See Source »

...Cried Hinckley: "History has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly-or die! The entire nation must become air-conditioned. . . . We shall be thoroughly air-conditioned when we are not startled by the proposal that school children visit the Arctic by transport plane to study Eskimos in their native habitat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High Schools, Air-Conditioned | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Inhabitants of the hall peaked shyly from doorways as the microphone was brought into the building, and then, as they recognized fellow-female "Kilte" McGrath, Radcliffe '42, opened up and answered questions designed to introduce the species in its own habitat to the other half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girl-Manned Network Microphone Gets Into Grays Hall and the Truth Comes Out | 8/5/1942 | See Source »

...insist that the Modock and the Oozlefinch derive from a common ancestor. The Modock's first migration to the U.S. was noted early in the 1920s, when the Quiet Birdmen insisted that they were no relation to either the kiwi or the Modock. The kiwi's natural habitat is New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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