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Yesterday his investigations revealed the bone-picked carcasses of over 70 pigeons, slain by a huge chicken hawk...
Babcock has made this tour for 19 years and never seen the likes of this slaughter. The guilty hawk, he says, shuttles regularly between the Mom Hall and Memorial Church towers at feeding time, looking for his meal...
Calhoun's undergraduate cockiness was not unwarranted; seven years after leaving Yale he was in Congress. In 1811 he became Henry Clay's lieutenant in the raucous young "War Hawk" faction which whooped for war against Britain. Afterward, when little "Jemmy" Monroe became President, he offered Calhoun the job of Secretary of War. The ambitious Calhoun grabbed it and did a bangup job. He reformed the Army diet, adding vegetables to the monotonous bread and salt pork, and began projects to extend the Union through exploratory expeditions and the building of a system of national highways...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Fletcher, 65, who saw action in 14 World Series, four times as a peppery, slick-fielding Giant shortstop in the McGraw era, ten times as a wily, hawk-eyed Yankee coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fletcher joined the Yankees after four seasons (1923-26) as manager of the lackluster Phillies, turned down the chance to manage many another big-league team-including the Yankees-and stayed on until 1945 as one of baseball's highest-paid coaches...
Died. Rafael Sabatini, 75, author of more than 40 jack-booted cloak-and-rapier romances (Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood), historian and playwright; in Adelboden, Switzerland. Born in Italy and raised as a polyglot cosmopolite, Sabatini made England his home and English ("All the best stories are written in English") his language...