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Forced Landing. In Dudley, England, after two happy years in the pool of the local zoo, the resident pelican took off on a flight for freedom, landed by mistake in the lion...
...director, Francis Henry Taylor, has never concealed his dislike of the moderns. "Instead of soaring like an eagle through the heavens as did his ancestors and looking down triumphantly upon the world beneath," Taylor once wrote, "the contemporary artist has been reduced to the status of a flat-chested pelican, strutting upon the intellectual wastelands and beaches, content to take whatever nourishment he can from his own too meager breast...
Winged Victory. In Woodland, Calif., duck hunter Charles Roller found a pelican with a broken wing, started to set it, had to struggle to keep the bird quiet, got his head caught in its 15-inch beak...
Comeback. Of the hundreds of prewar college humor magazines, only 40 had lasted through the war. By last week there were 200. Circulations were booming: at teeming Texas the Ranger had hit 14,000 and California's Pelican was over...
...Pelican about right except for the second line, where the worst limp is. That line should read...