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...expected to tell the difference between a chicken hawk and a humming bird, spent one afternoon "birding" with the Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs, scratched on the face by some pesky twigs, and firmly determined never again to stray from a city pavement. The Perkinses managed to find some unusual birds...
...onlooker mumbled: "Hell, he used to clear the decoys, and plunk 16 feet from shore." One-third of the way across, Shed's black head turned at a whistle from Bakewell to get directions. He entered the cattails just six feet from where the mallard was hidden, sniffed for a second, found his bird. A few minutes later, Shed did it again, and won his third U.S. championship. His owner, who once turned down $10,000 for him, will collect almost that much next year from Shed's stud fees. Said an admiring voice in the gallery...
While other planemakers raced to produce cheaper planes for a wider market, soft-spoken Leroy Grumman galloped off in the other direction. This week his Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. announced its postwar commercial model, the Mallard, an eight-to-ten-passenger amphibian with lush-plush custom-tailored interior. Price: $100,000 & up (depending on the interior arrangement selected...
Close Relations. In New Bern, N.C., identical twins Elbert and Delbert Doster were divorced by sisters Dorothy and Sarah Whitley, married cousins Edna and Theda Mallard...
Seabury Quinn '46, accustomed now to clerical garb from his role in the same Wilde comedy. "Earnest," again is cast as a priest. The two tinkers are Charles Raphael '49 and Eleanor Mallard...