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This report confirms a belief doctors have had ever since the discovery three years ago that pigeons (40% of them in some areas) and many other fowl (sometimes even ordinary hens) carry a virus similar to that of psittacosis, the much dreaded parrot disease. Both viruses produce a virus pneumonia, but the parrot virus is much more dangerous, usually killing about 18% of its victims. Both behave so much alike that medical men now refer to all bird-borne virus pneumonias as ornithosis, and call both viruses "members of the psittacosis group...
Pecky Takes Over. Still amiable, Mr. Wickel asked for the rest of the bill, was informed that a white parrot named Pecky could tell, if it would. Stiffened with mike fright fortnight ago, it wouldn...
...Wickel took Pecky home, wooed it doggedly while phone calls, letters and wandering curiosity-seekers offered suggestions. For four days the parrot croaked over & over: "Nellie," "Lily," "Ken." Less amiable by now, Mr. Wickel shipped the bird back to Edwards...
Last week, one of the longest running gags and one of the most successful promotion stunts in radio history wore itself out. From Chicago, where it had been shipped for Saturday's show, the parrot's "Ken" was enlarged to "Ken I'm No" and this was interpreted (by reading backwards) to mean: "On my neck." In NBC's New York studios, Mr. Wickel smiled grimly when Edwards promised to mail the money between Pages 12 and 13 of a book...
...hard kick at Argentina, she will lose face in Latin America. But to kick hard, the U.S. would have to apply economic sanctions. Great Britain, Argentina's biggest customer, will definitely not follow the U.S. if sanctions are applied. The Pan American Union may keep a talking parrot, but by week's end it was the State Department that was getting the bird...