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...heron is a heron is a heron is an auk," said the eminent expert on aves, and even birds ought to know it. This sort of cheap attempt at evading truth blackens the name of ornithology and must be condemned by all responsible and intelligent people, students and faculty alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poonsters Post Reward for Vanished Ibis as Harlow Refutes Heron Fake After Night of Magic, Mystery | 5/4/1946 | See Source »

...away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pace of the Turtle | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Hollywood neither wanted nor expected him to be King Heron; it was just that all the frogs in the swamp were good & tired of King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Exit King Log | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...picture is not one of those adults-only affairs in which women in heron plumes and wolves in waxed whiskers prowl after each other on divans. It is a straight forward, dramatically naive little lecture in which the syphilis-nicked pilot of a bomber-and the audience- are told some practical facts about syphilis, its effects, its prevention. The Legion is quite correct in observing that it does not mention the most practical method of prevention, continence, yet some of its facts are well worth circulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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