Word: ornithologist
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Died. Arthur Augustus Allen, 78, Cornell University ornithologist who in 50 years of bird watching discovered many principles of avian psychology (birds are shocked to see themselves in mirrors, sometimes suffer from inferiority complexes), was the first to raise the ruffed grouse in captivity, locate the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew, record successfully the call of the whooping crane; of a heart attack; in Ithaca...
...ornithologist at the Frankiia Zoo in Boston explained that "birds have long been known to be capable of flying across large stretches of water," although he conceded that a trans-Pacific flight was "rather out of the ordinary...
...kill the birds, they would probably need an amendment to the state conservation law. A few do-it-yourselfers were reported baiting the pigeons with corn, then clubbing them to death with baseball bats. A more scientific and humane though admittedly long-range remedy was proposed by an ornithologist: let the city feed the pigeons all they will eat, but have the corn treated with chemicals that will make the birds sterile...
Married. Elizabeth Berlin, 26, youngest daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, who at 75 flew across the Atlantic to give the bride away; and Edmund Boyd Fisher, 24, son of British Ornithologist James Fisher; in London...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Hurt Lancaster gives his finest performance as a murderer who in prison becomes an ornithologist...