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Today he paints little else. On a hilly, wooded seven-acre farm about eight miles from Atlanta, he lives with his buxom wife, a family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...
...later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...
...into the design and manufacture of complicated fire control devices, antiaircraft searchlights. Prize Sperry antiaircraft product is the Sound Locator-Searchlight, which picks out flying raiders by sound, focuses the lights on them, trains antiaircraft guns so that they "lead" bombing flights as a duck-hunter leads a flying mallard...
Radio stations have good reason to be skittish about the sort of religious programs they put on the air. Last year, before Easter, a religious drama was submitted to NBC which gave its executives quite a turn. Called The Living God, translated from the French of Cita and Suzanne Mallard, the program attempted to take its hearers back to Jerusalem during the last days of Jesus Christ, whose Passion and Resurrection were supposedly broadcast by an announcer with a portable microphone. Even in a toned-down version this drama scared NBC. But when it was finally broadcast in Holy Week...
...England shipped Baron Hartzell back to the U. S. and fortnight ago he took another trip, at Government expense, from Leavenworth to Chicago, headquarters of the racket for the past two years, to face a second fraud trial. In Chicago he and Otto G. Yant, bank cashier from Mallard, Iowa, who took over the enterprise after Hartzell's imprisonment, were chief defendants of the 41. Yant had been picked up by a detective from Chicago's confidence game detail who posed as an impatient "investor," got a thorough picture of the whole headquarters operations. When police and postal...