Word: heron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wind Across the Everglades (Schulberg; Warner) is for the birds. Pretty birds they are, too-snowy egrets, white heron, roseate spoonbills-whether cawing squeakily in their fledgling nests or soaring through a dusky Florida sky. But Author-Co-Producer Budd (On the Waterfront) Schulberg should have heeded the advice usually given to acrophobes rather than bird watchers-never look down. Schulberg does look down, and he and his movie take a terrible tumble...
...cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
...crane family is composed of fourteen species of tall wading birds. Contrary to popular misconceptions, the heron is not even closely related to the cranes, which are, of course, family Gruidae. The rarest and noblest crane of all is the American whooping crane, order Gruiformes, or simply Grus americana. Like other cranes, the whooping crane prefers life in a marsh, where it can munch away merrily on snails, insects, shoots, and seeds. The whooping crane is distinct from other cranes in that it has a longer neck, a wing span of up to seven feet, and only twenty-nine living...
...Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters...
...LAST SUPPER AND OTHER STORIES (214 pp.)-Howard Fast-Blue Heron Press...