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...find something appropriate for this gigantic cuckoo clock to sing, experts combed zoos and aviaries. At the home of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, they thought they had found what they wanted: an East Indian bulbul named Greenie, who had been adopted by the bird-loving Osborns as a pet. Greenie was a magnificent singer, with a voice of extraordinary range. But he was so temperamental (he did his best singing in the bathroom while the water was running) that the idea had to be dropped. Engineers compromised on another Osborn pet: a Mexican nightingale (Myadestes...
...Also hard hit was New England, with tens of thousands sick in Massachusetts, many schools closed in central Maine. Health Commissioner Stanley Hart Osborn of Connecticut estimated that 50% of school children in the State would be downed before the epidemic was over. Several defense industries in Connecticut were hampered by illness; at Winchester Repeating Arms in New Haven 1,200 workers out of 7,500 were absent; many were sick in Hartford's Colt's Patent Fire Arms and United Aircraft Corp...
Professor Richard Osborn Cummings of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. once wrote a Harvard thesis on refrigeration. After that he went inside the icebox. Last week Professor Cummings published The American and His Food (University of Chicago Press; $2.50), an important social study of diet and health since 1789. In effect the book is a history of the struggle of meat and potatoes v. vitamins...
...William Church Osborn, attorney, lifelong Democrat, onetime Roosevelt adviser...
...Heard himself praised as a "humanist" by Chase S. Osborn, former Republican Governor of Michigan, who denounced Wendell Willkie as a "rapacious capitalist...