Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sing a Song of Sixpence. Among all the U.S. enterprisers who devote themselves to titillating the unripened mind, none has succeeded as Hoppy has, both with his under-age customers and the thousands of manufacturers, retailers and advertising men who hawk his wares. Last week 63 television stations were pumping out his old movies, 152 radio stations were carrying his voice, 155 newspapers were printing his new Hopalong Cassidy comic strip, and 108 licensed manufacturers were turning out Hopalong Cassidy products at the rate of $70 million a year...
Local squirrels are aflutter and the pigeons are going equirrelly under a combined land-air attack. Behind the disturbance are a large white cat and a duck hawk that uses the Mem Hall clock tower for a landing field...
...Cambridge pigeonry has lost at least 30 of its members since the hawk--Falco Peregrinus Anatum--arrived on October 16, according to a count made by Peter L. Ames '53 of the Ornithological Society. Ames climbed the tower last Friday with the clockwinder to count carcasses dropped by the hawk from the upper roof...
...watchers were unavailable for comment last night, but the furred marauder has taken a considerable toll. Unlike the duck hawk, which dives upon its prey at speeds approaching 200 miles per hour, the cat relies on stealth. This leaves time for crowds to gather, and nature's drama is sometimes played before large crowds of class-goers...
...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...