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...Kalapur, and get him there fast. But 300 miles of rebel-infested territory lie between the fort and Kalapur, and in crossing it a rescue party would stand about as much chance as a moth in a monsoon-unless, of course, the party is accompanied by an ingenious scriptwriter (Robin Estridge) with a trunk full of assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, hair's breadths, fell swoops, stiff upper lips, white man's burdens and whys not to reason...
...miniature mockingbird. A very tiny, slender mite, even smaller than a chickadee, blue-gray above and whitish below . . . long, contrastingly colored tail." It migrates through the whole of Texas, winters in the southern part, breeds in the northern. The black-tailed gnatcatcher has "less white on tail." Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark." The deadpan statement, "red eye is of little aid," has nothing to do with liquor but refers to the red-eyed vireo - better "characterized by the gray cap and the black-bordered white 'eyebrow...
...above today. Heard a robin for sure this morning. Clear, sunny, fleecy clouds. Planted head lettuce, cucumbers, honeydew melons in flats and tins. Asters pushing up from the soil. Washed today. What a lot of snow-melting it takes...
...Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 3-4:30 p.m.). Golf, as played by Pros Sammy Snead and Dow Finsterwald, Amateurs Ray Milland and Robin Roberts...
Epithalamium. In London, Susan Stranks arrived ten minutes late for her wedding to Robin Ray, explained breathlessly: "I was so nervous, I had to have a brandy and a ham sandwich." Pressed. In Vassar, Mich., the Tuscola County Pioneer-Times ran a classified ad: "Dry cleaning for delivery yesterday must be received by noon tomorrow at Clark's Cleaners...