Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...
Died. Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, 81, father of the U.S. bird-sanctuary system, for 34 years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...
Dorrder of the day is a Harvard victory which may encRoche upon the conscience of the old ornithologist, whose eleFlynnt line and Champion backfield are Coan to keep the boys in the press box velly busy Cowenting up the Faberious score...
...Slated for Moscow was an amateur ornithologist and part-time farmer, the sensitive and erudite dean of Manhattan's drama critics, Brooks Atkinson, who learned about foreign reporting in censorship-cramped Chungking. (When Broadway calls Atkinson again, Drew Middleton, not so long ago an obscure A.P.man and now the Times's "find" of the war, was likely to move in from Germany to succeed...
...read again." She said of her first husband: "I took the only course that could save us from a life of self-contempt and spiritual dishonor." Of her second husband, handsome, upright and slender, with trembling hands and' bushy eyebrows, Mrs. Jardine said: "He was a passionate ornithologist-that is, he knew all about birds." She ended the chapters of her conversations with such studied, melodramatic disclosures as: "I have never seen my grandchildren...