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...exclusive CRIMSON interview last night, pigeon no. 1 (grey, male) cast an eagle eye on pigeon no. 2 (brown, young; female) and squawked, "Well stacked-the shelves, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Birds Top Bookworms In 'Operations Ornithology' | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

...alone in its aim to become a nationwide student's magazine, the April Progressive contains eleven articles, six of which ought to be of special interest to socially aware undergraduates all over the country. The other five items, including competent reports from Washington and on Palestine and a clay pigeon contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with a message: "Entered plant O.K. Don't worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Too Bad | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Whether "The Angel and the Badman" is the signal of a long awaited intellectual renaissance among western producers or whether it will he pigeon-holed as a noble experiment, the block long queues at the Paramount and Fenway are an accurate indication of public taste and appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

Late Bulletin. In Forst, Germany, an indomitable carrier pigeon turned up with a three-year-old message from a Nazi infantry detachment: "We are cut. off by the enemy in southern Italy and no hope is left of breaking through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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