Word: pigeoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when his wife's suicide, his love for his small daughters, and a partner's treachery cause him to turn state's evidence. Thereafter he belongs, body & soul, to Assistant District Attorney D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy). His liberty depends on his cooperativeness as a stool pigeon. His life, and the safety of his children and his second wife (attractively played by newcomer Coleen Gray) depend much too precariously on secrecy and on police protection. Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), against whom Nick is forced to appear in court, is unexpectedly acquitted; and Udo is a sure killer...
...does a homing pigeon navigate, often over hundreds of miles of territory it has never seen before? Professor (of physics) Henry L. Yeagley of Pennsylvania State College thinks he has found the pigeony secret. Last week, on General Electric's Science Forum broadcast, he described the pigeon experiments he has been doing for the Army Signal Corps...
Yeagley began with the idea, not original with him, that a homing pigeon is equipped with some sort of "magnetic compasses," i.e , some sensitivity to the earth's magnetism. Yeagley tested this notion by fastening small magnets to the wings of well-trained pigeons. Confused by their own magnetism, most of the birds never got home. Others, carrying equal wing weights of nonmagnetic copper, made the home roost without trouble. The experiment indicated that the earth's magnetism is a factor in pigeon navigation...
...pigeon's own magnetic compass could not, by itself, bring him back to his roost. Like a ship, a pigeon needs some other instrument too. Many places on the earth's surface have identical magnetic conditions. A pigeon guided by his compass alone might end up almost anywhere...
...many as 16 shows a week; his record is seven in one day. Last week, on "a sort of summer vacation," he did the dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold...