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When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
...round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from the Lundy Post Office. He has coined his famous puffins & half-puffins (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930), coins bearing his likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird,'' the parrot-beaked, fat-bellied puffin. The 45 citizens of Lundy have not minded in the least. Trouble first began when a Devonshire court fined Sovereign Harman ?5 because he "did unlawfully, as a token of money, issue a piece of metal of the value of one penny [or puffin] contrary...
...smart as modern man. If he were living today, he could easily become a good mechanic or a bishop. Much of what passes for intelligence in our present civilization is simply imitation. The so-called educated man of whom our generation is so proud, only repeats in parrot fashion the knowledge inherited from the past, is lacking in the intellectual audacity necessary for true progress. The big-brained animal has created an artificial material environment and moral code for himself, has not developed sufficient brainpower to use his creation wisely...
...which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when he turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make dumb parrots talk, to visit complaining purchasers in the guise of a muddled old lady while making notes for robbery. Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo takes the witness stand as Mrs. O'Grady to save a youth unjustly accused of a crime committed by Echo's partners...
...others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other books : Alexander Asiatique, Isvor, Catherine-Paris, The Green Parrot...