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...flat and briskly "takes' her in 'and." Runs her up some baby clothes, starts her eating properly for two, goes to the clinic for a stack of diapers and a doll to practice on. But all too soon the idyl ends. The old hen comes home to roost, the flit flies the coop, the heroine is left to hatch a hopeless future...
These people were birders-a flinty-eyed, cold-tailed breed whose normal habitat covers just about every square mile of land in the U.S. They nest and feed very much as humans do, but at around the turn of the calendar every winter, they roost in icy swamps, deep forests, river and creek shores, arriving there usually in predawn darkness, armed with cameras, binoculars, telescopes, field guides and silence. They are a kind of rara avis whose purpose it is to count birds and species of birds, with the emphasis, of course, on the rara avis...
...headstrong rule of his own roost, Gleason had a mixed reputation around CBS: "There is only one way to do things." said the voices in the washroom, "the Gleason way." He refused to rehearse, treated scriptwriters with such scorn that one producer claims "we had to hire a liaison man between Gleason and his scriptwriters." Nonetheless, the company thought enough of his talents to agree to pay him $100,000 a year every year from 1957 through 1972. Gleason does not have to work for the money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working...
...into the ledge around the interior court. In these holes were inserted poles with strings dangling from the end. At the end of each string there is a nine inch gilt owl which sways menacingly in the wind. The pigeons have been fearless, however, and continue to walk and roost on the ledge with no thought of their own safety...
This ground was more than usually fertile for Histoplasma, Dr. Dodge found, because in the late summer and early fall, starlings used the treetops as a dormitory. Their droppings, which covered the ground, have the right chemical composition and acidity for Histoplasma to flourish. In cities starlings usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost...