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...without even looking at the denomination. But she has invested heavily in bonds, and is building an annuity that will some day pay $500 a month-maybe enough to keep her in perfume and pet food (her menagerie has included a lion cub, a marmoset, several dogs and a parakeet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...much as when she used to keep a pet lion cub that nipped interviewers' shins. Tallulah was back on Broadway to play in Noel Coward's old (1931) Private Lives. She received the press flanked by a Hungarian shepherd dog, a miniature Pekinese and an aquamarine parakeet named Gaylord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Beautiful People | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Financier. In San Diego, police charged that Thomas Saffold had 1) bought a parakeet with a bum $16 check, and 2) used his new pet as collateral to raise $26 by representing it as the lead in a recent all-bird motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...speak of these remarkable birds as "midget parrots." They are, of course, of the parrot family, but their correct name is shell parakeet or budgerigar . . . These remarkable birds . . . can not only be trained to act but to talk as well. My bird, Blue Boy, has a vocabulary of over 400 words which have been distinctly understood by many of his visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Carolina parakeet, noisy and gay, was once abundant and ranged as far north as Wisconsin and New York. It was last reported in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sad Birds | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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