Word: pigeoning
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...Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last week that her Mark Antony is the 25-year-old boss of the Patoot's family paper Popolo d'ltalia, none other than Vito Mussolini...
Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria...
...your Letters column might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath...
...special attention, the 1936 season went on record as horse racing's most prosperous year. In 15 states that permit pari-mutuel betting, $1,000,000,000 changed hands. Leading jockey of the year was Basil James, with 239 winners through last week. Leading trainer was the onetime pigeon fancier, Hirsch Jacobs (TIME, Oct. 26), with 173 winners. Leading horse of the year was Granville, who won $110,000. And the most extraordinary records of the racing year were those of two utterly dissimilar race horse owners. One was 24-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The other was Sangreal...
...name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They are the most beautiful natural acrobats and think nothing of swinging across a forty feet clearing and catching a pigeon in mid-air on the way over. They have the most perfect sense of timing. One gibbon pet in Indo-China used to juggle precious china cups or plates in the air without ever breaking...