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...pounded northwest across the State. The Sandy Hook light was blown out and the Statue of Liberty went dark when lightning struck its power plant. So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners. Into Brooklyn was blown a baby Louisiana heron, with one wing broken. The storm gave the city a six-month supply of water in its mammoth reservoirs...
...Consequently, 87 planes entered the amateur cruise to Florida. (Last year there were .22.) Of the 87 entrants, 53 turned up at the meet on opening day; 25 more, delayed by weather, straggled in during the next two days. Winner of the trophy and $1.000 first prize was J. Heron Grossman III of Wilmington...
...came a routine Press announcement last week. Following its new policy of buying contemporary works of U. S. artists, the museum had acquired five canvases-Disappointed Fisherman by Henry Varnum Poor from the Montross Galleries and four others chosen from the current biennial display at the Whitney Museum: Blue Heron by Jonas Lie; In a Cafe by Adolphe Barie; Union Square by David Morrison; Delaware Water Gap Village by Louis Michiel Eilshemius...
...evening sun has just rolled down a shoulder of the mountain leaving a great blue heron hanging alone in the sky. He surveys with evident satisfaction the long line of foothills that stretch away like ramparts across the horizon. A carpet of soft green swings down the valley and lies along the plains beyond. In the pasture across the road a solitary hedgehog is pottering about some forgotten business before he sets out on the long waddle home. And in the air there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook...
Science classifies Balaeniceps rex as a heron, although it is very like a stork...