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...hawk and a humming bird, spent one afternoon "birding" with the Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs, scratched on the face by some pesky twigs, and firmly determined never again to stray from a city pavement. The Perkinses managed to find some unusual birds. All I spotted was a robin-first of the season...
...Private political armies are now frantically acquiring arms for an emergency. The strength of each in arms already acquired may be seen from the following gradation: PVO, Red Guard, Red Flag, Red Shirt, Galon, Red Peacock. The Dobama Tat (Ba Sein's private army) has just been formed, and has started collecting arms. So has the Police Union (reason mysterious), according to a secret information source...
Lavelli's four cohorts include Tom Redden and Stan Peacock at the forwards, and Gordy Davis and Fred Nadherny at guard. This is the same unit which inflicted a 60 to 38 defeat on Barclay's team last weekend...
...First Symphony and Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, then played the violin in Brahms's Concerto in D Major. Shy, slight Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with no dye), 64, Hungary's top composer since the death of Bela Bartok, conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his bustling, folk-tunish Peacock Variations. Enesco is now an honorary Rumanian deputy; Kodaly an honorary member of Hungary's Parliament...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Kodaly's Peacock Variations. Conductors: Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy...