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...Exploded in mid-air above Cleveland...
...differ radically from those of most people: the male Duck Hawk is 18 inches in length, the female 19, with a wingspread of 40 to 46 inches. The Duck Hawk, credited with the aviary speed record of 175 m.p.h., kills by "stooping" at its victim and striking it in mid-air with great force. They have been known to kill birds as large as the Canada Goose (length...
Freestyle skating, Button's specialty, was the field in which the Massachusetts Hall resident most outshone his opponents. He went through his repertoire of runs, mid-air twirls, high splits, and prodigious leaps without a slip...
Under a new cover policy, the monkeys and gag cartoons that have been almost a Collier's trademark, are out. The redesigned cover will display action photographs in color; this week's shows a drum majorette doing a split in mid-air (see cut). The masthead has also been changed. Oscar Dystel, new managing editor, brought in a new art director, Tony Palazzo, from Coronet; a new men's fashion editor, Bert Bacharach; and a women's fashion editor, Mrs. Taube Coller Davis ("Tobe"), who runs a style advisory service for retailers...
...falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms. The lumpish, drooping legs bewail their mid-air uselessness; the head hangs horrified over the void. By its very color, the body mourns its own impending death, which the red beating heart denies...