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...Brunswick, where he was meditating while fishing, Naturalist Thornton (Old Mother West Wind stories) Burgess, 80, whose bedtime stories are in sum a 44-year chase of Peter Rabbit, who always manages to evade Reddy Fox by a hare's breadth, confided that Peter will never be caught unless it's over Burgess' dead body. "There will never be a tragedy in the Burgess bedtime stories," said he feelingly, with a deep sense of his mission. "Tragedy comes into a child's life soon enough...
...result is one of those leisurely English personal accounts that can fairly be set beside such classics as Naturalist Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne and Novelist George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. Nan Fairbrother does not so much write as compose, in model sentences and paragraphs. She describes the natural world about her in fresh images, e.g., "The fir trees, seen from above, are as neat and composed as cats sitting by the fire in the circle of their tails." The change that has come over old rural England is made plain...
...near by have deteriorated sufficiently to make it necessary for the police sometimes to provide special protection for members of the congregation. The Chapel of the Intercession, consecrated in 1914, was built by famed Architect Bertram Goodhue, who considered it his best work. In the adjoining cemetery lie Painter-Naturalist James Audubon and Poet Clement Clarke Moore, author of A Visit from St. Nicholas. ST. LUKE'S, on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village, serves a 450-member congregation ; its principal project is currently the building of a new parochial school to accommodate 200 students...
Lectures on Leave. The son of an Episcopal minister, Forbes started his first museum in his own attic in Stamford, Conn., often trotted over to ask the advice of his famed neighbor, Naturalist William T. Hornaday. He studied zoology and ornithology at the State University of Iowa and Bowdoin College, later became curator of a special natural history collection in Stamford. While serving as an Army Air Corps sergeant in Alabama, he carried on his work. On days off, he managed to raise enough money for a museum in Geneva, Ala., spent his leaves lecturing and showing movies in schools...
...tireless grin. He opens most shows with a two-minute monologue he writes himself, follows it with a seven-minute skit featuring such regulars as Announcer Durward Kirby, Dancer Ray Malone and Singers Denise Lor and Ken Carson. Once every week, Moore brings on Naturalist Ivan Sanderson and his menagerie of chunga birds and false palm-civets. For his closing spot, he keeps on hand a stock of carefully timed jokes and comment (ranging from 20 seconds to 2½ minutes...