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...Thurber's world are never servants one can deal with reasonably. They are agents of the devil, users of abracadabra, alarming in their slightest gesture. "They are here with the reeves," said Delia, his colored maid. "The lawn is full of fletchers," she announced on another occasion. Barney Haller, the Thurber handy man, had "thunder following him like a dog." His language, like Delia's, was from the nether world. "Dis morning bime by I go hunt grotches in de voods...
...construction program of this size, which requires 6,000,000 barrels of asphalt emulsion for the runways alone, Pan Am (a transport company) was not at first equipped. It formed a subsidiary, Airport Development Program, took on Haller Engineering Associates as consultants on soil stabilization, and got Bitumuls of Brazil, Inc. to build plants for making and mixing the surfacing material. Out of deference to Brazilian feelings, no U.S. Army engineers we're involved, but the whole project was delayed at the start by Brazilian doubts. Then it was delayed by Pan Am's own inexperience...
...millions of cinemaddicts who "ohed" and "ahed" over the brilliant colors in Gone With the Wind were admiring the first Technicolor job by the perfectionist of the cinematographers, tall, blond, rosy-cheeked Ernest Haller. At 44, Ernie Haller has 17 years' experience and 80 pictures behind him but still frets and fumes over details with a wad of gum in his mouth, always complains about his results. Now earning $800 a week at Warner Brothers, Haller's single Technicolor experience with G. W. T. W. has won him recognition as the dean of the field. Like most photographers...
...When Haller picked up the crumpled bit of down and feathers, he saw that it was a male, with a yellow throat with raw sienna, a yellowish olive patch on the back, a brownish hue on the flanks, a gull-blue back. He had never seen a warbler quite like it before. Later he bagged a female of the same species, sent both birds to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, which, he knew, had specimens of every known bird in the U.S. But the Smithsonian birdmen could find nothing to match Haller's warblers...
Last week the Smithsonian's Curator of Birds Herbert Friedmann announced that a new species had been discovered, first new bird found in the U.S. proper for 21 years. Name: Dendroica potomac Haller. Dr. Friedmann could not understand where the species had been hiding all this time. Next spring he plans to get troops of amateur bird-snoopers to help him find...