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...Return. "Fraud," cried scientists. The bird man works at twilight, and that is when starlings go home to roost anyway. Also, the starlings were back next day. Very interesting, said the bird man, but these things take time. And had the scientists seen his credentials? In Indianapolis, for instance, where everything from klaxon horns to electric cords had been used to keep starlings from roosting at the U.S. courthouse and post office building, the bird man turned up last January. He spent a few hours on the courthouse roof, dangling what seemed to be a silver rope over the ledges...
Queen in Control. The real shocker was in the women's championship, where the U.S. has ruled the roost since 1938. As the finals began, this year looked no different from all the rest. For the U.S., blonde, hefty (5 ft. 5^ in., 140 Ibs.) Darlene Hard, 23, an ex-waitress from California who fuels her hard-hitting attack with a voracious appetite ("I just can't pass up anything on the menu"), was a recognized player of championship caliber. By contrast, her opponent. Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, daughter of a Sao Paulo veterinarian, had never...
Jobs in the theater were hard to come by when Harry Belafonte left dramatic school in 1948. He took a job as a messenger and package wrapper in the garment district; nights he used to drop in at a Broadway jazz cellar known as the Royal Roost. He learned a few songs-Star Dust, Blue Moon, Pennies from Heaven-and landed a job. He made some recordings, even composed a quavering ballad titled Lean on Me ("You in your high ivory tower/ Drunk with the sense of your power/ I adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come...
...difficult to see what colleges the Report is talking about. According to Shannon McCune, "we don't want more than the usual quota of screwballs." But New College is not planned as a roost for "greasy grinds" either. Its students, according to McCune, should be "young men and women of imagination and curiosity--in many fields...
Dinners, receptions, smokers, or other programs are planned by the following clubs for Dec. 29: Columbus, Miami, and Washington, D.C. On Dec. 30, the Harvard Club of Eastern New York will hold an affair at the Wolferts Roost Country Club in Albany, where Coach Lamar will again be the guest speaker. The Birmingham, Cincinnati, and Cleveland organizations will also sponsor functions on that date...