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Cause of ornithosis is a microbe, on whose nature and classification the experts are not agreed. Most regard it as a large virus. Parakeet lovers, like turkey raisers, apparently get it by breathing infected dust particles; processing plant workers get it from handling the viscera. Oregon has recorded no case of the rare human-to-human infection. Birds, like man, can be cured with aureomycin and Terramycin. (Before antibiotics, 20% of human cases ended in death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Turkey Trouble | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...never mention his present address. Last September Reuther moved to a converted summer cottage on a trout stream near Detroit, where he lives with his wife, daughters Linda Ann, 12, and Elisabeth Luise, 7, two lambs, two kittens, one horse, one German shepherd, one cocker spaniel, one sheep, one parakeet and one goldfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The G.A.W. Man | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Strictly for the Bird. In Long Beach, Calif., Betty-Jo Michael got visitation rights at a predivorce hearing after her husband successfully bid for the custody of their pet parakeet, Pretty Boy, commented: "I figure that if I can keep the bird she'll come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk at it. Now the counters offer everything from Laugh of the Party to Rail Dynamics and Parakeet Lessons ("Salty Sailor & Romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Parakeet's Perch. His day begins at 5 a.m. in his three-room suite in the Mayflower hotel, where he has lived since 1926, the year after it was built (recalls Mrs. George: "I'd been watching the building go up, and one day I said, 'Mr. George, I don't know where you're going to live, but I'm going to live right there' "). He reads the morning papers, shaves (sometimes with a parakeet named Bobbie perched atop his head eying the lather hungrily), breakfasts on grapefruit and coffee with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Voice of the 84th | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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