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...John's player who commanded most of the crowd's attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...
...Trouble."* Of the 2,000-odd fighters in the Rising, many are dead, others have disappeared. Among the survivors to whom the medal went were Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, three of his Ministers, Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave, Minister to the U.S. Robert Brennan, Protestant Labor Leader Archie Heron, Actor Arthur Shields...
Promptly Husband Pough began a systematic prowl through Manhattan's stores and warehouses. He picked up feathers of 40 species of wild birds, including the whistling swan, osprey. great blue heron. A dozen firms sold plumage of the American bald eagle, although it is protected by act of Congress. Great stocks of foreign plumage-from Siberian storks, Philippine pelicans, Argentine rheas-drifted in through customs loopholes...
...feather merchants and milliners. Last week Manhattan feather merchants, representing 90% of the U. S. industry, agreed to file inventories of their stocks with the New York State Conservation Department, dispose of their wild bird plumage within six years or forfeit it. They will give up all eagle, heron, bird of paradise plumes at once...
George Inness, who rejected the literal-minded grandeur of this school for simpler, more warmly painted, atmospheric studies of nature. Place of honor at the Whitney last week was occupied by Inness' The Home of the Heron, a scene of deep forest splashed with...