Word: ornithologist
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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...
Died. Jack Miner, 79, famed Canadian ornithologist, founder of a pioneer North American bird sanctuary in Kingsville, Ont. ; after a heart attack; in Kingsville. He clipped aluminum bands stamped with scriptural texts and his address on to birds' legs; received in 1943 the Order of the British Empire from George...
...such richly colorful material, woven into a narrative that is never schematic, and yet never a mere miscellaneous grab bag of historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...