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Today the loft on the Journal's roof houses 76 cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs with elastic. The Journal used 20 pigeons on the Crempa story, finds them useful in covering ship-news, trials, sports, outlying murders. From ships at Quarantine, 14 miles away, the Journal gets pictures of incoming celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival papers must wait two hours until the ship docks...