Word: perching
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...William Bauer of Kingston, Ont. caught a 32-inch pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...
...collected only enough for a modest house: "Not so plenty money because paintings not so good." The picture that fetched the highest price ($500) shows a grey palm tree with red fruit. The caption, written by K. C. Wu, says: "This tree is very hard, like iron; beautiful birds perch on it, looking down on the clear springwater. This is a heavenly place, wthout the slightest noise to break the stillness...
Digitalis & Cream. Veterinarians, none of whom dared enter his cage, diagnosed his trouble as arthritis, heart disease and old age. Though Bushman managed to pull himself feebly up to his perch after hours of lying inert, they thought he was dying. The Chicago newspapers sent reporters hurrying out to stand a death watch. When Bushman, who was refusing to eat, took a pint of cream containing a stimulant, the Chicago Tribune ran a black, eight-column Page One bannerline: BUSHMAN GIVEN DIGITALIS. The Tribune could have done no more for a President-at least for a Democratic President...
Married. Mischa Auer, 44, perch-eyed film comic (For You I Die); and Suzanne Kalish, 21, daughter of a New York chemical exporter; she for the first time, he for the third; in Rome...
...world came fairly close to suicide in World War II. During the London blitz, Eliot spent two nights a week as a fire-watcher on the roof of his office building. From his perch above what he has often called the "unreal city," Eliot observed, with terror and compassion, the relentless fires. Had London's people (and with them, Western civilization) gone down then, Eliot's verse would have served as a magnificent and tender epitaph...