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...went to the basement to sleep," he said, "and she crawled over to me and put her head on my chest and said, 'O. daddy, love me.' I told her to get away." John Kuzon then went out and dug a five foot grave in his hen coop. "I went back to the house and got my wife. She wanted to know where I was taking her. I told her I was going to carry her to an ambulance and she replied: 'I know what you are going to do.' ... I carried...
Over his Eskimos bushy-bearded Danish Premier Theodore A. M. Stauning broods as anxiously as any hen over her chicks. Last week Herre Stauning's Cabinet again upheld his slogan "Greenland for the Eskimos!" (TIME, March 23 & June 8, 1931), rejected an application from Transamerican Airlines Corp. for a concession to establish transatlantic flying bases in Greenland and at Copenhagen. (Three times larger than the Kingdom of Denmark is its Eskimo-infested colony Great Greenland...
...advanced by those who urge a thorough search of the east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn up. In respect to Arthur the Seagull, police of Sandwich, Massachusetts, are keeping a sharp lookout for a small bird named "Minnie", sole surviving Heath Hen of the Bay State, and friend of the Harvard gull several years ago. Description of the hunted bird, which tallies somewhat with that of the Lampoon's sacred Ibis, states that Minnie is slight, grey-colored, with pale features and a closely-cropped ruff on the top of the head...
...some of his characteristics should be preserved for posterity. The Martha's Vineyard Rod & Gun Club voted to find him a mate, appealed to Professor Gross. Dr. Gross had recently returned from Wisconsin where he studied prairie chickens (Tympanuchus americanus), found them so similar to the heath-hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that no eye less sharp than an expert's could tell one from the other. Both are pinnated grouse. A prairie chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate indeed. The State of Wisconsin agreed to ship a few prairie chickens, New York...
Previously M. Sauvant had compared the construction of his pilot seat to the position of a hen's egg contained within an ostrich egg. If the ostrich egg were dropped and smashed, he said, the hen's egg would remain intact. He once dropped a sheep and six eggs safely from 500 feet in a model of his ship (TIME, Dec. 14). Several times he tried to make the test himself but could not elude police until last week. Before undertaking his cliff dive he let a motor truck ram Amour with himself inside...