Word: quails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bargain Day. In Americus, Ga., Leon D. Slappey, unarmed, flushed a covey of quail, pointed an imaginary gun, cried, "Bang, bang" - whereupon one of the birds flew into a fence and was killed...
...A.F.H.Q., under Eisenhower, is U.S. Major General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, who is a recurrent motif throughout the complexity of Eisenhower's staff organization. Said a British officer: "All this would not be possible without Ike and Beedle." Stocky "Beedle" Smith used to train bird dogs and hunt quail with General Marshall in Virginia; in North Africa he keeps a cocker spaniel and a Virginia orderly, Sergeant Sam Carter, to remind him of happier times. He is the production manager of the Allied war machine. While his chief is on high with the plotters and the planners, Beedle...
...Quail and rabbit in some parts of the U.S. are threats to crops, gardens. > Fewer than 200 reindeer "planted" after World War I on Nunivak Island, off the coast of Alaska, have grown to a herd of 19,000. Since the island will support only about 10,000 reindeer, the surplus must be killed...
Much of this flabbergasting art treasure is superbly illustrated in The Enjoyment of Art in America (J. B. Lippincott; $10), a new book which will give even the most passionate art lovers one reason to quail: the book (792 pages, 740 illustrations) weighs eight pounds, twelve ounces...
...this, even John L. might need a buildup, but one look is reassuring. Director Raoul Walsh and Actor Bond have recreated him to the life. In training camps he alternately obliterates sparing partners and barrels of beer; childern follow him in the streets and in barroms strong men quail when he roars: "I can lick any man in the world." Partician Miss Smith feels his biceps and nearly swoons with delight. Even though Director Walsh and Gentleman Jim make a monkey out of him in the ring, his gymnasial fragrance lingers...